Terry Hancock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In fact, if I had one complaint about Python, it was the > "with a suitable array of add-ons" caveat. The proprietary > alternative had all of that rolled into one package (abeit > it glopped into one massive and arcane namespace), whereas > there was no "Python Data Language" or whatever that > would include all that in one named package that everyone > could recognize (I suppose SciPy is trying to achieve that).
I believe the Enthought distribution of Python (for Windows, with a Mac version planned) is trying to move exactly in that direction, by packaging up everything and a half (while of course leaving a reasonable assignment of namespaces from the pieces it's packaging!-). However, maintaining such a distro, and making it available for a wider variety of platforms, are heavy, continuing tasks -- unless either firms, such as Enthought, or volunteers, commit to such tasks, they won't "just happen". Alex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
