On Jan 28, 2009, at 11:11 PM, <[email protected]> <[email protected]
> wrote:
Hi All,
I am a developer from other languages and find myself on python now.
I'm wondering if anybody has objections to doing a package
management gui
for python.
My design suggestions would be to:
- use WXWidgets (cross compatability for most pythonic platforms)
- provide a GUI wrapper for EasyInstall
- source packages from http://pypi.python.org/pypi
It seems we have most of the componentry in place. The problem seems
to be
that it doesn't come together in a very user friendly way at the
moment
that is cohesive.
Can anybody/everybody flame/tell me why we shouldn't work to
simplify this
area of python ?
I don't think that the missing of a gui is what is the problem today
for python. Package uninstall is something that bothers some (maybe a
lot) of users. Another point is to have something like webstart for
java. If I understand how it works, running an application goes like
this: If you open an app and it depends on another package not
installed on your system java goes around and download the missing
modules for you (and stores them in a relative place to the package or
the user package dir) so the application can run. This would be cool
for python, the problem being that there is no security to guarantee
that those modules are not malicious in any way...
That is it, I would not opose to have a gui to install python modules,
but I couldn't care less for one. There are a lot more pressing
matters in the distutils/setuptools part of the python env than a gui.
--
Leonardo Santagada
santagada at gmail.com
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