Marcel Luethi <marcel.lue...@gmail.com> writes: > > Now I'm standing here, having this great idea for a brand new rocking > app... > But where do I start? I want it to be multi-platform (Linux, Mac OS X, > Windows). It should be easy to install and upgrade. It should be self- > contained, independent of an already installed Python. And of course - > the world should be able to find it! [...] > Using my iPhone I suddenly realize how easy it is to find applications > in Apple's AppStore. How easy and fast it is to install or de-install > an app. My iPhone even checks in the background if there is an upgrade > which could be installed painlessly. [...] > Unfortunately there's nothing like this in the Python world...
Sure there is: it's called "The Internet". It's just that it supports more platforms (not just the iPhone), and it's been growing for the past 30+ years (whereas the iPhone app-store has been growing for..., what, a single year?). What do you think the iPhone app-store will look like 30 years from now, with 3 decades' worth of apps and 23 different iPhone models to support? Actually, since we're just talking about a distribution-system for apps written in Python (as if users care what tools the app-developers used to develop their apps?), I'd be content to hear your projection for a mere 18 years out (the amount of time for which Python apps have been in production), or even 10 years (which takes us back to Python 1.5). :) -- Don't be afraid to ask (Lf.((Lx.xx) (Lr.f(rr)))). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
