[Python-Dev] Language Summit notes

[Benjamin Peterson]

On Wed, Apr 16, 2014, at 15:26, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> 
> Hi Taavi,
> 
> Thanks for the report!
> 
> > Disussion about packaging continues. Glyph asks if the PSF could fund a
> > usability study on installing Python. People generally seem to think
> > it's a good idea.
> 
> What does this mean exactly? Under OS X and Linux, Python is typically
> installed by default. And under Windows, it's a simple installer that
> even non-Windows users like me have no problem executing. So what is
> the problem this is trying to solve?

The installers might be hard to find on the website or hard to use.

> 
> > There is no "one installer" that has everything you need for 2.7 right
> > now.
> 
> Neither for 3.x, for that record.
> 
> > Lunch
> > ~~~~~
> > 
> > There was food!
> 
> Good to know nobody starved to death :-)
> 
> > AP exams are starting to allow Python, but it's 10% of the AP CS exams.
> 
> "AP"?
> (I thought that was me, but it sounds unlikely :-))

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Placement