On 8/25/07, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I believe the only reasonable solution is to promote the use of > package managers, and to let go of the "batteries included" philosophy > where it comes to major external functionality. When it links to > something that requires me to do install a pre-built external > non-Python bundle anyway (e.g. Berkeley Db, Sqlite, and others), the > included battery is useless until it is "charged" by installing that > dependency; the Python wrapper might as well be managed by the same > package manager.
Windows is in a slightly different category; many people can't easily install the external bundle. If it is included in the python binary (sqlite3, tcl), then everything is fine. But excluding them by default on non-windows machines seems to be opening the door to bitrot. (Remember that one of the pushes toward the buildbots was a realization of how long the windows build had stayed broken without anyone noticing.) -jJ _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
