[EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : > re being serious > > I am serious. I am seriously trying to develop a nice language for > beginners.
That's not what I was talking about. > re DLing source > > As a "solution" to the problem of wanting a program on my computer, it > sucks. On Windows I'll DL an install package, "accept" a license > agreement, click Next a few times (no, I can't make a cup of coffee > because the minute I step away the "Wizard" will ask a question), ... > With CNR the commitment is that I CAN walk away. I do not know who > should be responsible for putting things in the warehouse. Those who maintain the warehouse. > I do wish > that the *n*x community would create some sensible standards so the > 'our distro doesn't put things where others do' There are such standards - but not anyone is following them. What you have to understand is that unix is not *one* OS, but a (quite large) family of OSs. > would stop being an > issue. Looking in "/usr/bin" and its brethren makes "c:\Program Files" > seem organized. Your opinion. > re changing distros because apt-get could do the job > > I'll take your words for the superiority of Ubuntu. But I'll not > change from one problem (can't find the python-devel that python.org > says I need) to another (installing a new OS). I bought my Linspire > computer with the OS installed. I've no interest in mastering the art > of installing Linux. Installing Ubuntu is quite straightforward. IMHO even simpler than installing any "recent" (ie >= NT4) version of Windows. > I'm a big fan of KDE, KATE and Konqueror and > having a dozen desktops for a dozen projects. I do not miss crashes > and viruses. I do not miss shelling out hundreds of bucks for an > office suite. Fine. But anyway, you have to face the fact that your OS doesn't provide a proper package for recent Python versions, and that this is by no mean the responsability of the Python team. So you're left with the following options: - complain to the company selling Linspire until they provide this package - try to install Python from sources - install another OS -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list