On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 2:26 PM, Ravi <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wednesday 30 December 2009 06:15:45 René Dudfield wrote: > >> I agree with many things in that post. Except your conclusion on >> multiple versions of packages in isolation. Package isolation is like >> processes, and package sharing is like threads - and threads are evil! > > You have stated this several times, but is there any evidence that this is the > desire of the majority of users? In the scientific community, interactive > experimentation is critical and users are typically not seasoned systems > administrators. For such users, almost all packages installed after installing > python itself are packages they use. In particular, all I want to do is to use > apt/yum to get the packages (or ask my sysadmin, who rightfully has no > interest in learning the intricacies of python package installation, to do so) > and continue with my work. "Packages-in-isolation" is for people whose job is > to run server farms, not interactive experimenters. >
500+ packages on pypi. Provide a counter point, otherwise the evidence is against your position - overwhelmingly. _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list [email protected] http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
