[Python-Dev] Language Summit notes

[Donald Stufft]

On Apr 16, 2014, at 6:38 PM, Benjamin Peterson <benjamin at python.org> wrote:

> 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
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Possibly Glyph meant installing a Python *stack*, which likely includes setuptools and
pip in order to actually get other things installable. Possibly also a compiler setup
for installing C things.

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Donald Stufft
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