[Distutils] [Python Language Summit] Distutils / Packaging survey

Josselin Mouette joss at debian.org
Thu Jan 29 14:56:17 CET 2009


Le mercredi 28 janvier 2009 à 21:18 -0500, david.lyon at preisshare.net a
écrit :
> Sometimes it is easier under linux to get an operating system python
> package (from debian for example) installed than it is to get a pure python
> package...
> 
> That seems very wrong to me.....
> 
> So I am agreeing...
> 
> What can we do to fix this?

As the whole point of packaging is to ease the installation of software,
it is a pretty normal situation to find packages are easier to install.

If you know cases where they are not, that would definitely be something
to fix.

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