On Fri, 2009-05-01 at 10:45 +0100, richard.melvi...@ntlworld.com wrote: > In answer to your reply above: if ease of installation were a bar to > entry in the book then the book would become very sparse indeed.
Agreed, but conversely, the book would be an unmaintainable monster if things went to the other extreme. And it's my impression that it's already something of a struggle to keep the book up to date - Gnome, for example, is at 2.18, released about 2 years ago. OpenOffice is version 2.3, again a couple of years old > Secondly, just because I've only just found a use for MySQL-python > myself does not mean that it would not be a useful addition to the > book. I'm not trying to set myself up as a sole arbiter; that's why I > was looking for input from others, such as yourself. Fair enough. But my personal thinking is that there needs to at least be a good reason to add a package to the book, rather than the absence of a reason not to. Because it's a common dependency for other packages, for example. Or because many people want it but struggle to build it themselves without assistance - because it's complicated, or has lots of dependencies, say. Or all of the above, like X. Simon.
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