On 11/11/2016 06:52 PM, Brian M Hamlin wrote: > Here at UC Berkeley, it seems that far more people use the Anaconda > distribution system,than any Debian python packaging. > The Mac OS is perhaps more than fifty percent of serious science users, by casual observation, > and the pain and dysfunction of the Windows ecosystem continues to drive many decisions about packages. > Python programming is meant to be portable, and it is. > That is a substantial portion of the benefit of choosing python. > I do not believe that the Debian python packaging policies have much effect on scientific programmers here, whichever OS they use.
What people do at Berkeley has little to no relevance in the context of OSGeo-Live which is built on Ubuntu, and Debian by extension. This causes the Debian Python packaging policy to have a significant effect on the python packages included in OSGeo-Live. Kind Regards, Bas -- GPG Key ID: 4096R/6750F10AE88D4AF1 Fingerprint: 8182 DE41 7056 408D 6146 50D1 6750 F10A E88D 4AF1 _______________________________________________ Live-demo mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/live-demo http://live.osgeo.org http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc
