On August 31, 2015 at 6:36:42 AM, Paul Moore (p.f.mo...@gmail.com) wrote: > > If there's any additional functionality that Linux systems > provide, > could someone summarise it from an end user POV for me? (And maybe > also point out why I'd never noticed it as a naive Linux user!) > To me, > that's a key to whether this PEP is missing something important > relative to those systems.
Wichert provided a much more in-depth summary, but I’d just say that the primary differences from an end user POV is that the defaults aren’t baked into the tool itself, but rather laid down in a config file by the system installer, and that they have more features for controlling how multiple repositories are combined into a list of packages that the installer can come from (e.g. only get package X from Y repository or such) but that their default behavior is roughly equivalent to what pip and setuptools does. ----------------- Donald Stufft PGP: 0x6E3CBCE93372DCFA // 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 DCFA _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
