On Apr 22, 4:18 pm, lcrocker <leedanielcroc...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Apr 21, 11:36 pm, Rui Maciel <rui.mac...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Steven D'Aprano wrote: > > > It's only easy to install a package on Ubuntu if you know that you have > > > to, and can somehow work out the name of the package. > > > No one actually has to install tkinter. That's the whole point of providing > > it as a separate package: only those who want to use it have to install it. > > The rest of us don't. > > I'm a programmer, I installed Tkinter, and use it. I'd like to deploy > programs > written with it to others. **Those** people know nothing about it, > and > **shouldn't have to**. I've given them a program in Python, they have > Python, > but it doesn't run, and doesn't give them a helpful error. They'll > probably > just blame me and move on. Not every Python user is a programmer. If > I write > a program in Java, any user with Java installed can run it. As it > stands, > that's no true for Python. That's not good PR for the cause.
On the whole agree -- except for the java part -- maybe you've not heard of 'jar hell'? On the whole easy-deployability without losing easy-programmability is a major research issue. See this for someone choosing C++ over Lisp http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.finance.ledger.general/1955 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
