In article <20090720025149.326f0...@halmanfloyd.lan.local>, Marek Kubica <ma...@xivilization.net> wrote:
> > > there is one free unique implementation on the 3 major platforms > > > Linux, Windows and MacOS X > > > > Most people would still consider Solaris to be a "major platform". > > Depends on who you ask. On the desktop it doesn't matter at all > (fortunately, since everytime I work on Solaris I'm entering a world of > pain which is just slowly getting better with OpenSolaris), on the > server it (and other propietary Unices) is losing ground compared to > the free Unices. Clearly, there's not much (if any) Solaris on the desktop. But it's sure alive and kicking in the server world. One of the things I like about Python is not just how portable is it is, but how easy it is to build and deploy. We build our product on Windows, N different Linux distros, Solaris, HPUX, AIX, and OSX. I've built Python for all of those platforms. Then, I checked the install areas into Perforce. Deploying is as simple as checking out the right sandbox. We've gone through the same exercise for Perl. That was a lot more painful. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
