29 Nov
2006
29 Nov
'06
11:23 a.m.
Hi Anthony, On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 12:53:14AM +1100, Anthony Baxter wrote:
python2.4 distutils is excluded by default.
I still have no idea why this was one - I was also one of the people who jumped up and down asking Debian/Ubuntu to fix this idiotic decision.
I could not agree more. Nowadays, whenever I get an account on a new Linux machine, the first thing I have to do is reinstall Python correctly in my home dir because the system Python lacks distutils. Wasteful. (There are some applications and libraries that use distutils at run-time to compile things, and I'm using such applications and libraries on a daily basis.) Armin