Phillip J. Eby wrote: > Paul Boddie wrote: > > Could anyone enlighten me/us as to why the Smart Package Manager [1] > > (written in Python, presented at EuroPython this year) isn't being more > > closely investigated as part of a suitable solution? > > More closely investigated by whom, as a solution for what? Surely > there is someone somewhere investigating it as a solution for > something, so your presupposition that it isn't would seem to imply > that you have some more specific person(s) and solution(s) in mind. :)
Well, it seemed quite odd to me when one of the leading package management experts gives a talk at a Python conference about the package management tool that he's developing (having already successfully developed one or more of the better existing solutions), and yet no-one in the vocal, blogging Python community seems to have heard of the tool in question. One would have thought that this would have been fertile ground for collaboration. Not that a lack of awareness of wider trends and technologies isn't unusual: a brief EuroPython corridor discussion of groupware standards elicited the astonishing response from one participant that such standards were designed for centralized server configurations when one clearly gets the opposite impression when reading the standards documents and actually using the related technologies in practice. (The lack of awareness of things like Kontact and KMail - ie. anything other than Microsoft Outlook plus Exchange - seems pretty widespread even amongst people who supposedly "know Linux and have considered Novell Evolution", however, so it isn't really that fair to single other participants out over that particular point.) > However, it would certainly appear that *someone* could investigate > making Smart a bigger part of some "suitable solution" for something. > :) Indeed. I considered looking into just that, but we all only have time for so much. ;-) Paul -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
