On Sunday, February 8, 2015 at 3:52:19 AM UTC+5:30, Gregory Ewing wrote:
> Rustom Mody wrote:
> > Wanted to try out sympy.
> > apt-install promised ź GB download, ž GB space usage
> >
> > Just getting a src-tarball was: 6M download, 30M after opening the tar.
>
> Have you actually tried compiling
Rustom Mody wrote:
Wanted to try out sympy.
apt-install promised ¼ GB download, ¾ GB space usage
Just getting a src-tarball was: 6M download, 30M after opening the tar.
Have you actually tried compiling and using that
tarball, though?
Sympy hooks into a lot of other libraries that
are themsel
On Saturday, February 7, 2015 at 8:43:44 AM UTC+5:30, Rustom Mody wrote:
> There is on the one hand python modules/packages mechanism with all the
> hell of dozens of incompatible versions of setuptools/distribute/distutils
> etc.
>
> On the other there is the OS-specific practices/policy such a
On Saturday, February 7, 2015 at 7:35:12 AM UTC+5:30, Ben Finney wrote:
> Ethan Furman writes:
>
> > On 02/06/2015 04:44 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
> > > A program will often have enough complexity that its implementation
> > > occupies several sub-modules. There's no need to explose those in a
> > >
Ethan Furman writes:
> On 02/06/2015 04:44 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
> > A program will often have enough complexity that its implementation
> > occupies several sub-modules. There's no need to explose those in a
> > site package, they normally only need to be local to the
> > application.
>
> If the
On 02/06/2015 04:44 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
> Ethan Furman writes:
>
>> On 02/06/2015 02:56 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
>>> It is a deliberate design decision that direct import of a module
>>> makes that module blind to its location in the package hierarchy.
>>>
>>> That's a design decision I deplore, b
Ethan Furman writes:
> On 02/06/2015 02:56 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
> > It is a deliberate design decision that direct import of a module
> > makes that module blind to its location in the package hierarchy.
> >
> > That's a design decision I deplore, because it makes something that
> > should be e
