Chris Withers wrote: > Jim Jewett wrote: >>>> - python to grow a decent, cross platform, package management system >> >> As stated, this may be impossible, because of the difference in what a >> package should mean on Windows vs Unix. >> >> If you just mean a way to add python packages from pypi as with >> EasyInstall, then maybe. > > I meant package in the python sense, which has a clear definition, > unless I'm mistaken?
Unfortunately, you are mistaken: the term "package" is highly confusing and ambiguous in the python sense. It could be a package-as-import-sees-it, or it could be a package-as-pypi-sees-it. For the latter, the distutils inventors tried to coin the term "distribution", but that didn't quite catch on. It *is* the Python *Package* index, and people do often refer to the things it indexes as packages. >> In some environments, each new component must be approved. Once >> python is approved, the standard library is OK, but adding 7 packages >> from pypi requires 7 more sets of approvals. > > True, but as I mentioend elsewhere, I myself haven't done a python > project where I only needed python and the standard lib for many years... I was always able to get what I need through aptitude. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ 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
