On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 12:42:42AM +0100, Jan Claeys wrote: > Op donderdag 30-11-2006 om 21:48 uur [tijdzone +0000], schreef Steve > Holden: > > I think the point is that some distros (Debian is the one that springs > > to mind most readily, but I'm not a distro archivist) require a separate > > install for distutils even though it's been a part of the standard > > *Python* distro since 2.3 (2.2?) > > > > So, it isn't that you can't get distutils, it's that you have to take an > > extra step over and above installing Python. > > No, it just means that several parts of the python.org source package > are spread over several binary packages, just like happens with hundreds > or thousands of other packages, and any Debian (or Ubuntu or other > distro doing this) administrator worth his or her money should be aware > of that, and be able to find those packages.
In both the current Debian and Ubuntu releases, the "python2.4" binary package includes distutils. See for yourself at http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_contents.pl?searchmode=filelist&word=python2.4&version=stable&arch=i386&page=1&number=all if you like. So I'm not sure what the fuss is about. > Maybe python.org can include several logical "divisions" in the > python.org distribution and make it easy for OS distro packagers to make > separate packages if they want to, as most of them are quite happy to > have less work to do, provided the upstream "divisions" do more or less > what they want. ;-) (Oh, and such a division should IMHO also include > a "minimal python" for embedded/low-resource hardware use, where things > like distutils, GUI toolkits, a colelction of 20 XML libraries and > documentation are most likely not needed.) There's already a "python2.4-minimal" package in Debian/Ubuntu that would probably be a good starting point for an embedded distribution that cares about space more than providing a complete Python. -Andrew. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com