On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 12:37 PM, Chris Withers
<chris@simplistix.co.uk> wrote:
(I'll be CC'ing the distutils sig in to these replies as this discussion probably belongs there...)
Nicolas Chauvat wrote:
The slides for my two talks can be found here:
http://www.simplistix.co.uk/presentations
"Python Package Management Sucks"
Install debian and get back to productive tasks.
haha. :)
I just wanted to react on that: I have created a setuptools-enabled package for Pylint (logilab.pylintinstaller, see
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/logilab.pylintinstaller) with the bless of Logilab, so people under Windows could use the tool with a one-liner installation process...
So if you like Pylint and Python but you don't use Debian you can use that.
This is an almost troll-like answer.
See page 35 of the presentation.
If you're too lazy, here's a re-hash:
- there are lots of different operating systems
- even with Linux, there are many different package management systems
- all the package management systems behave differently and expect packages to be set up differently for them
- expecting package developers to shoulder this burden is unfair and results in various bitrotting repackaged versions of python packages rather than just one up-to-date version maintained by the entity originating the python package
- Adobe Photoshop Plugins, Firefox Add-ons, etc do not delegate their management to an OS package manager. Packages are Python's "plugins" and so should get the same type of consistent, cross-platform package management targetted at the application in question, which is Python in this case.
cheers,
Chris
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