On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 10:57:30PM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 3:36 PM, Paul Tagliamonte <paul...@debian.org> wrote: > > 4) Python modules from dpkg are borderline useless for developers. We > > package modules so that apps can use them, not so that people can > > develop with them. > > Are they 'borderline useless' because they are normally much older > than upstream? I think most development work has no need for > latest-and-greatest.
Well, sorta. The problem here is different major versions have different APIs. If I have to maintain my eons old Django 1.2 app on the same machine as a 1.4 app, I don't want to keep uninstalling and reinstalling packages. It's silly. I wish we shipped wheel files so we can trust the pip installs, but meh. It seems like this, also, isn't something folks here care about for some reason. What's more, it's helpful to have a development env that can match the env that I test stuff in tox with. > P.S.: Thanks for the post. I was unloving the tone of the thread. Samesies :) Cheers, Paul -- .''`. Paul Tagliamonte <paul...@debian.org> : :' : Proud Debian Developer `. `'` 4096R / 8F04 9AD8 2C92 066C 7352 D28A 7B58 5B30 807C 2A87 `- http://people.debian.org/~paultag
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