[Baypiggies] Assuming NoPython is good criticism. (Rant)
Rich Pixley
rich.pixley at palm.com
Wed Sep 9 01:14:37 CEST 2009
Also, the modules system leaves a bit to be desired. The difference
between foo.py:foo.foo, foo/index.py:foo.foo, foo/foo.py:foo.foo, etc,
is subtle, undocumented, and there is no means of disambiguating.
Similarly, the pathing issues involved in packaging have not been well
solved, although they have in many other dynamic languages. The net
effect is that people tend to write single huge files simply because of
the packaging issues.
Personally, I think it's sad that the packaging and community library
attempts, (like pypi & EasyInstall[sic]), have been language specific
rather than leveraging the packaging systems native to the OS, (like
rpm, debian, etc). While this makes it easier to interactively download
one package on one uncontrolled machine, it makes it more difficult to
do things like automated loads across multiple servers, multiple server
instances for things like clean machine installs, qa, etc.
And... I miss unexec.
--rich
ps, psyco only runs on 32-bit x86's. It's no use on arm, powerpc, or amd64.
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