Op 2004-12-02, Peter Maas schreef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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.
Debian has muliple distributions. Only the stable distribution is really conservative. The PostgreSQL version in the testing distribution is 7.4.6-4, the download page of PostgreSQL gives 7.4.6 as the latest version. That seems to be in order. -- Antoon Pardon -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
