[Python-Dev] Update to Python Documentation Website Request

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

David Lyon writes:
 > On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 17:08:32 +0100, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:
 > > I read this as meaning that David was proposing to ship a built
 > > application (on Windows, bundled up with something like py2exe, I
 > > guess) and any supporting DLLs such as the wxWindows ones would be
 > > bundled in, but the wxPython package would *not* be shipped as part of
 > > the standard library.
 > 
 > That's correct.

-1, then.  Python is open source.  Anything shipped with the standard
distribution should be buildable with the Pythonic tools in the
standard distribution.  Obviously the C compiler and operating system
services are non-Pythonic, and the line is pretty fuzzy, but I would
not want to extend similar consideration to wxPython.

This kind of thing is what ActiveState and the OS distros are for.

If you say this is discriminating against Windows, well, it probably
is, but it should be addressed with a Windows solution, such as a
script to generate MSIs.