On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 5:50 PM, Mike Orr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You're discounting the "fun" effect: people want to see if they can > accomplish it. There is no "fork" of Pylons/Mako/Paste. Merely > people exploring the incompatibilities to see if the same package can > be made compatible for both environments.
Yes, exactly. I left out the "fun" effect because it would not be rational anymore :-) I agee with you for the most part but: > The problem with C libraries is a lot bigger than just Google. It > frustrates users on Windows and Macintosh to no end, and many of them > give up trying to install Pylons/lxml/ToscaWidgets/wxPython and go on > to something else. Precompiled binaries don't always exist, are too > old, hard to find, or built with the wrong C compiler or Unicode > width. This is, in my ideal world, a Windows problem, not a Python one. For the record: I use Linux and MacOSX day by day and never had issues with C libraries. I already know Windows is an entire different matter. For this and a lot of other reasons I don't use Windows at all, unless to test HTML pages with IE 6/7. BTW even if the developer likes Windows as his platform most of the deployment in the Python world is done on unix machine, at least in my side of the universe. I am not sure someone will go with (for example) (Django|Pylons|TG) + Apache2 + PostgreSQL on a Windows box as the server. In my opinion the "problem of the C libraries" is not as big as it seems. Just don't use Windows to develop, use it at home if you like it to surf, listen to music, play games :D > That's why we didn't use lxml in the WebHelpers upgrade. We looked > and finally found a pure Python module that did what we need. I know and I don't blame you as developers of an entire framework. Losing compatibility with the most widespread platform is a shame but AFAIK there are lxml binaries, see: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/lxml/2.0.3 -- Lawrence, stacktrace.it - oluyede.org - neropercaso.it "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on not understanding it" - Upton Sinclair --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pylons-discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to pylons-discuss@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pylons-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
