[Distutils] [Python-Dev] How we can get rid of eggs for 2.6 and beyond

[Paul Moore]

On 22/03/2008, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:
> > Oh, and application installation is (should be) completely different.
>  > On Windows, applications should probably be bundled with their own
>  > Python interpreter, a la py2exe. On Unix/Linux, I don't know what the
>  > standard is, so I'd have to defer to others.
>
>
> This I disagree with. I think it's an overall bad thing to have all
>  kinds of applications ship their own copy of Python; see also Aza
>  Raskin's PyCon keynote.

Is this on Windows? It's fairly common practice. Can you give me a
pointer to Aza Raskin's keynote? Is it online anywhere? I'd be
interested in his point of view.

Paul.