> so you're saying that the set of people that can deal with > no more than one > file at a time but knows how to install and configure Python > (which in itself > comes with a few thousand files) is larger than zero?
Take me as an example: Very often, I needed software that could solve a specific problem. I used to find, say, 10 different packages. Usually none of the programs REALLY did the job as I wanted it to be done. Yet, in order to find this out (or in order to find the package that suited my needs best), I had to try out all of these packages. This used to take an unnecessary amount of time. I would have found (say) one java program, one c++ program, one Python program, one perl program, ... I know that java, c++, Python and Perl are all installed on our system. And if they weren't, I would know how to install them myself: By using yast or by saying 'apt-get install <package>'. Yet: I don't want to have to know how to install all these packages in all these different languages. I think a program should work out of the box. And the should be no fumbling it out of the box. Jörg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
