On 29 October 2017 at 20:44, Alex Walters
Writing scripts for non-developers, in an unmanaged environment (IT cant push a python install to the system) on windows means running pyinstaller et. al., on your script, if it has dependencies or not. Its not worth it to walk someone through a python install to run a script, let alone installing optional dependencies.
Let's just say "not in the environments I work in", and leave it at that.
Not to sound too crass, but there are only so many edge cases that a third party platform developer can be expected to care about (enough to bend over backwards to support).
I never suggested otherwise. I just wanted to point out that "scripting in Python" covers a wider range of use cases than "can use pip install". I'm not asking python-dev to support those use cases (heck, I'm part of python-dev and *I* don't want to bend over backwards to support them), but I do ask that people be careful not to dismiss a group of users who are commonly under-represented in open source mailing lists and communities. Paul