On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 00:10, David Lyon <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 23 Dec 2009 10:08:24 +0100, Lennart Regebro <[email protected]> > wrote: >>> There is no .tar.gz, .zip, .bz2, .exe, .msi or .egg concept of >>> packages in perl. And having to pick one.. that may or may not >>> be right for your configuration. >> >> So your usecase, that a Windows user refuses to install anything else >> than .msi files is solved in CPAN by the user not installing using >> CPAN. Well, that's handy. And the Python situation is worse how, >> exactly? > > The same operations take a longer time to complete than the > equivalent operations do with perl.
There is no "same operation". Your answer has no connection to what you answered, and hence make no sense. >> That is the most ridicolous excuse I've heard in a long time. People >> are saying to Guido that "Python needs CPAN" and wonders what that >> means. You come with you usual anti distutils rant, I ask *you* what >> the connection is, and you tell med to go hassle Guido. > > Yeah, I did. or maybe you can google on it.. And you still don't understand how stupid that is. QED. -- Lennart Regebro: http://regebro.wordpress.com/ Python 3 Porting: http://python-incompatibility.googlecode.com/ +33 661 58 14 64 _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
