On Apr 16, 2014, at 6:38 PM, Benjamin Peterson <benja...@python.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 16, 2014, at 15:26, Antoine Pitrou wrote: >> >> Hi Taavi, >> >> Thanks for the report! >> >>> Disussion about packaging continues. Glyph asks if the PSF could fund a >>> usability study on installing Python. People generally seem to think >>> it's a good idea. >> >> What does this mean exactly? Under OS X and Linux, Python is typically >> installed by default. And under Windows, it's a simple installer that >> even non-Windows users like me have no problem executing. So what is >> the problem this is trying to solve? > > The installers might be hard to find on the website or hard to use. > >> >>> There is no "one installer" that has everything you need for 2.7 right >>> now. >> >> Neither for 3.x, for that record. >> >>> Lunch >>> ~~~~~ >>> >>> There was food! >> >> Good to know nobody starved to death :-) >> >>> AP exams are starting to allow Python, but it's 10% of the AP CS exams. >> >> "AP"? >> (I thought that was me, but it sounds unlikely :-)) > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Placement > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: > https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/donald%40stufft.io Possibly Glyph meant installing a Python *stack*, which likely includes setuptools and pip in order to actually get other things installable. Possibly also a compiler setup for installing C things. ----------------- Donald Stufft PGP: 0x6E3CBCE93372DCFA // 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 DCFA
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