On Sun, 30 May 2010 15:16:42 -0700 John Nagle <na...@animats.com> wrote: > > It's nice that some of the options work. Note that someone who > used "--bindir", expecting it to work, might end up overwriting their > existing Python installation unintentionally, which would break system > administration tools like cPanel and "yum".
Well, usually you don't type "sudo" unintentionally... > The ongoing low quality of Python distribution mechanisms, and the > denial of that fact, is a major part of why Python, after 20 years, is far > less available than Perl. "Far less available"? How so? > The latest production versions of Red Hat > Enterprise Linux and CentOS, the major server distributions, still ship > with Python 2.4.3, a five year old version of Python. And of course nothing in this is Python's or setuptools' fault, since it's just Redhat's policy, so I wonder what you're trying to tell us. (not to mention that it doesn't have anything to do with the original topic anymore, either) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list