Python & Linux ?

[Rainy]

On Tue, 22 May 2001 10:59:43 GMT, Peter Moscatt <pmoscatt at bigpond.net.au> wrote:
> Hi Remco,
> 
> Yea, ya right.... it's difficult coming in from one enviroment (Win) to 
> a new one which is totally different.
> So, if Linux programs aren't installable as such, what does the Software 
> Manager do.  I thought it got the RPM files, uncompressed them then 
> installed ??

Well that's the thing - in windows you have the program itself that
comes with an installer that installs that program and misc things
like menu entries, while in linux you have a package manager that
takes over this job (which makes sense because now every program
doesn't have to recreate this functionality).

> 
> Thanks for your help.
> 
> Pete
> 
> 
> Remco Gerlich wrote:
> 
>>Peter Moscatt <pmoscatt at bigpond.net.au> wrote in comp.lang.python:
>>
>>>I have just migrated from Win98 over to Linux.  My programming platform 
>>>under Win98 was VB.
>>>Now in Linux, I have decided to program using the Python platform.
>>>I have bought myself a get started book and from what I can gather - 
>>>Python is a Interpreter and not a Compiler, therefore only being able to 
>>>develop scripts instead of installable programs.
>>>
>>>Have I got it all wrong here ??
>>>
>>
>>On Windows, this sort of thing is irritating, but then until a recent
>>version, VB had the same thing, and it didn't bother people that much.
>>
>>On Linux, Python is usually already there. If the file starts with the
>>appropriate line (#!/usr/bin/env python) and is executable, it works just
>>like any "real" executable. There's no difference.
>>
>>And the notion of an "installable program" is something from Windows.
>>
> 


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