Python evolution: Unease

[adamc]

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On 2005-01-07, Paul Rubin <http> wrote:
> Roman Suzi <rnd at onego.ru> writes:
>> I do not like the idea of having stubs. Once I had an experience working with
>> CPAN (I tried to install SpamAssassin and it required some specific modules.)
>> "Magic" install shell, provided by Perl, upgraded half the Perl distro,
>> including newer version of Perl!
>> 
>> So, I do like Python distutils better. it is not a major problem to
>> install something even if it required something else. Of course,
>> this depends on the package authors.
>
> But distutils don't help the problem that the module requires stuff
> that's missing.  That's what happened with the thing I downloaded last
> week, that needed wxPython.  I don't understand why the author felt he
> had to use wxPython instead of tkinter, since it wasn't a really fancy
> gui, but after already-described hassles trying to instead wxPython, I
> just used the application's command line interface instead, which
> worked fine.  But if wxPython is so much better, maybe it's time for
> Python to include it.
>
> I want to start using Audacity pretty soon, which I think really does
> depend on wxPython, so I'm going to have to deal with this wxPython
> installation problem which is definitely not completely trivial.  What
> a pain.  
>

I've not experienced problems installing wxPython on Debian (unstable).
It just *works* out of the box with apt-get. Perhaps this is more of a
problem with the package maintainers? 

Adam
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