En Wed, 28 Oct 2009 08:49:02 -0300, Alf P. Steinbach <al...@start.no>
escribió:
I suggested ActiveState because I know from earlier that their packages
are easy to install and provide documentation in reasonable Windows CHM
help file format. I did try the IronPython .NET implementation first
:-). But my experience with *nix folks' porting efforts is that they
create Windows ports that don't handle spaces in paths, don't even
handle backspace in dialogs they present, require undocumented
environment variables set up (and explaining such takes a lot of pages &
is demotivating), and just generally without any forethought or any
reasonable automation, requiring a lot of explanation and hand-holding
which would run to many pages, so I didn't even look at the CPython
implementation.
Perhaps I should.
Certainly. The ActiveState folks do a great work, but currently most of
the "features" listed for ActivePython on Windows are standard in the
python.org distribution. Like .chm help files, all "core extensions"
(zlib, bz2, sqlite...), all additional documentation (FAQ, What's new,
PEPs, everything except the "dive into python" book). The biggest thing
not included in the python.org distribution is the pywin32 package and
related stuff (like the PythonWin editor).
Maybe in the past the gap between both distributions were larger, but now,
the official Python build is perfecty suitable for Windows users.
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Gabriel Genellina
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