Torsten Bronger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > No it's not on Fedora, at least FC3. > > It may not be on a DVD but the RPMs are avaiable where Fedora should > look for them. > > > I had huge trouble trying to build it and gave up. > > It's perfectly okay if you are used to build everything yourself but > this is a quite untypical approach.
I think my approach is in some sense completely typical: I don't want to install ANYTHING, EVER. I've described this before. I want to buy a new computer and have all the software I'll ever need already on the hard drive, and use it from that day forward. By the time the software is obsolete and I want new stuff, the hardware is also obsolete, so I buy another new computer and start over. This is the way most non-technical use their computers (Wintel boxes with MS Office pre-installed), but then I don't get Python or much other development stuff Buying a Macintosh would maybe accomplish the above for me better than wintel (i.e. it comes with dev stuff including Python), but somewhat less typically, I also want access to all the source code, so I run Linux on an x86 box. That means I approximate my zero-install desire by starting with an empty hard drive and plopping in the FC3 (or now FC4) DVD and clicking "install everything" just once at setup time. After that, if I absolutely have to install anything, I consider it an exceptional situation and so I want to compile from source, not unpack a binary. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
