On Thu, 02 Dec 2004 15:29:53 +0100, Peter Maas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Diez B. Roggisch schrieb: > >>Same task on Win2k: download wxPython-setup.exe, double-click, done. > >>Took me approx. 1 minute. This strikes me. Why are some tasks so hard > >>on Linux and so easy on Windows? After all wxPython/Win and wxPython/Lin > >>are made by the same developers. My guess: the software deployment > >>infrastructure on Linux needs to be improved. > > > > > > On debian, it > > > > apt-get install wxPython2.5.3 > > > > I have heard praises of Debian's install system but Debian is quite > conservative with latest versions. There are some packages (e.g. Python, > PostgreSQL, Subversion) where I'd like to have the latest versions. > I don't want to be too tightly bound to the update cycles of the > Linux distribution. >
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache show python2.4 Package: python2.4 Priority: optional Section: python Installed-Size: 10972 Maintainer: Matthias Klose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: i386 Version: 2.3.97-2 Provides: python2.4-cjkcodecs Depends: libbz2-1.0, libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-4), libdb4.2, libncurses5 (>= 5.4-1), libreadline4 (>= 4.3-1), libssl0.9.7, zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.1) Suggests: python2.4-iconvcodec | python2.4-japanese-codecs, python2.4-iconvcodec | python2.4-korean-codecs, python2.4-doc Conflicts: python2.4-dev (<< 2.3.95-2) Filename: pool/main/p/python2.4/python2.4_2.3.97-2_i386.deb Size: 3503764 MD5sum: 519ed28c52bff645b311b8d5d27b2318 Description: An interactive high-level object-oriented language (version 2.4) Version 2.4 of the high-level, interactive object oriented language, includes an extensive class library with lots of goodies for network programming, system administration, sounds and graphics. Package: python2.4 Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: python Installed-Size: 9764 Maintainer: Matthias Klose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Version: 2.3.90-1 Replaces: python2.4-xmlbase Provides: python2.4-xmlbase Depends: libbz2-1.0, libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-4), libdb4.2, libncurses5 (>= 5.4-1), libreadline4 (>= 4.3-1), libssl0.9.7, zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.1) Recommends: python2.4-iconvcodec | python2.4-cjkcodecs | python2.4-japanese-codecs, python2.4-iconvcodec | python2.4-cjkcodecs | python2.4-korean-codecs Suggests: python2.4-doc Conflicts: python2.4-xmlbase, python2.4-csv Conffiles: /etc/python2.4/site.py b448b0f87294e041b8276ea3459df4a8 Description: An interactive high-level object-oriented language (version 2.4) Version 2.4 of the high-level, interactive object oriented language, includes an extensive class library with lots of goodies for network programming, system administration, sounds and graphics. This is a long and obnoxious way of pointing out that Python 2.4 is already available as a Python package :) How much more up to date software can you ask for? And even if there are packages that aren't available, don't you think effort put into a packaging system would better be put into apt than an entirely new system that is guaranteed to be less useful than apt for many years? Jp -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
