On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Christopher Barker <Chris.Barker@noaa.gov> wrote:
David Cournapeau wrote:
You really should not try to make the point that Pypi is working for the scipy community:
I think the evidence supports that pypi is useful
Yes - I stressed that it was not working well, for the scipy community. Not that it was not working at all for python
, and therefor better than nothing -- which in no way means it couldn't be much better.
My personal experience is that I always try:
easy_install whatever
first, and when it works, I'm happy and a bit surprised.
To say that you are happy when it works is telling about your low expectations, no ? My main point of disagreement with most discussion on distutils-sig is that I think the lack of robustness is rooted in the way tools are conceived and used, whereas others think it can be fixed by adding more features. This, and the refusal of learning how other communities do it is why I am considering starting with my own solution, David