On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 11:10 AM, René Dudfield <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 7:08 PM, Robert Kern <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 12:47, René Dudfield <[email protected]> wrote: >>> 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. >> >> Linux distributions, which are much, much more popular than any >> collection of packages on PyPI you might care to name. Isolated >> environments have their uses, but they are the exception, not the >> rule. >> > > wrong. pypi has way more python packages than any linux distribution. > 8500+ listed, compared to how many in debian?
Debian has over 30k packages. But I think he was talking about popularity, not the number of packages. _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list [email protected] http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
