On Thu, 2 Dec 1999, Deirdre Saoirse wrote:
> No, but almost all Linux installations (particularly Red Hat's) have
> Python installed already.
I've seen quite a few Linux boxen and have several at home, but I've never seen
Python installed on any of them. Maybe that's one of those "if you install
the entire (redhat?) distribution" things?
If I were considering some great new program written in Python, I'd be
annoyed at having to install Python first, maybe even enough so that I
would just do without. Maybe I'm in the minority, but if not, perhaps
the "universality" of whatever this is written in should be considered.
(You can't go wrong with good old C :)
Another thought... I've never done any porting of software, but I would
imagine that it'd be easier to design software to work on multiple
platforms from the beginning rather than porting it later. Why limit
this to Linux? If you could enlist #BSD/Solaris/whatever other
programmers from the onset, you might end up with a finished product
that's useful to a much broader audience. Maybe my outlook is different
from others on this list, but I don't care which OS you throw in front of
me as long as it's *nix. ;)
My comments may sound critical, but they're not intended to. Just throwing
ideas around. Please reply to the list because this address will bounce --
I object to having my email address archived on the web.
JM
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