Creating a distro of python... What would you include in it?

[Shane Geiger]

This is for Windows only, but since your target audience is newbies, 
that might be fine.

Python Sumo-Distribution for Windows - Freely downloadable Python 
distributions for Windows with many extra packages already installed and 
ready for use.
  -- http://code.enthought.com/enthon/




BJörn Lindqvist wrote:
> On 30 May 2007 08:25:48 -0700, farksimmons at yahoo.com
> <farksimmons at yahoo.com> wrote:
>   
>> I am creating a distro of Python to be licensed as GPL.... am
>> wondering, what would anyone suggest as to 3rd party modules being put
>> into it (non-commercial of course!)? I know I'd put MySQLdb into it at
>> the very least. Any suggestions?
>>     
>
> If your distro is to be GPL-licensed, does that mean that you want
> your components to be GPL too? If so, the number of components you can
> select is reduced drastically.
>
> I'd like a distro with a good IDE, GUI toolkit (PyGTK for example),
> Django and PyGame. Something you could point a newbie to and they
> would be able to create "real" applications with, without needing to
> download hundreds of dependencies.
>
>   

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