Roman Suzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I do not like the idea of having stubs. Once I had an experience working with > CPAN (I tried to install SpamAssassin and it required some specific modules.) > "Magic" install shell, provided by Perl, upgraded half the Perl distro, > including newer version of Perl! > > So, I do like Python distutils better. it is not a major problem to > install something even if it required something else. Of course, > this depends on the package authors.
But distutils don't help the problem that the module requires stuff that's missing. That's what happened with the thing I downloaded last week, that needed wxPython. I don't understand why the author felt he had to use wxPython instead of tkinter, since it wasn't a really fancy gui, but after already-described hassles trying to instead wxPython, I just used the application's command line interface instead, which worked fine. But if wxPython is so much better, maybe it's time for Python to include it. I want to start using Audacity pretty soon, which I think really does depend on wxPython, so I'm going to have to deal with this wxPython installation problem which is definitely not completely trivial. What a pain. > Yes, probably there could be a no-brainer script to run install > directly from zip and/or tar.gz/bz2 file, but I usually check > md5, pgp sigs and look inside anyway before running something. I thought distutils doesn't have any code-signing features. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
