Third Party Modules

[Jorgen Grahn]

On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 10:15:23 -0700, John Nagle <nagle at animats.com> wrote:
> Brock wrote:
>> Hi Everyone,
>> 
>> I know this is most likely a basic question and you will roll your
>> eyes, but I am just starting out with Python (hobbyist) and I see many
>> tutorials on the web referring to the use of external modules.
...

>     There are several different mechanism for handling this, and they all suck.
> The whole Python module distribution scheme is so uncoordinated that there's
> no uniform way to do this.  It's not your fault.
...
>     I'm not going to put Python software out for public use again.  I don't
> have the time to deal with this crap.

And which other language would have made it easier? Once you have odd
third-party dependencies, you (or your users, rather) will have
problems.

/orgen

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