Paul Moore wrote:

On 09/04/2008, Ben Finney <bignose+hates-spam@benfinney.id.au> wrote:

"Stanley A. Klein" <sklein@cpcug.org> writes:
 > A reasonable way to deal with Windows would be to create a package
 > manager for it that could be used by Python and anyone else who

wanted to use it. [...] This is primarily a Windows problem, not a

 > Python problem.

 I'd rephrase this as: If you *must* re-invent package management for
 those legacy systems without it, please *don't* make it specific to
 Python.


And I would say that Windows doesn't have a problem. Are any Windows
users proposing building a package management system for Windows
(Python-specific or otherwise)? It's a genuine question - is this
something that Windows users are after, or is it just Linux users
trying to show Windows users what they are missing?

Depending on definition of package management system (which was recently debated here on the list,) I'd say the combination of setuptools, easy_install, and yolk make up a reasonable attempt at a system for Python projects (I prefer to use the term projects rather than avoid confusion between a distribution package and a python package.) Yes, they don't integrate with add/remove programs, but you can easily install a project by name and have it depend on other projects, list the installed projects, and there is a documented process to uninstall them as well.

-- Dave