Re: when and why did python(-minimal) become essential?

2006-02-10 Thread Janusz A. Urbanowicz
On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 02:55:57PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Sorry, but there's a whole new generation of Debian developers here that > > simply won't develop anything in perl, just because perl looks too > > complex and cryptic to us. N

Re: [Distutils] formencode as .egg in Debian ??

2005-11-28 Thread Janusz A. Urbanowicz
On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 10:49:00PM -0500, Phillip J. Eby wrote: > At 09:08 PM 11/27/2005 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > >Removing the dependency checks entirely and replacing them with Debian > >dependencies is definitely an option, and I happen to prefer it slightly > >to the necessity of adding

Re: [Distutils] formencode as .egg in Debian ??

2005-11-25 Thread Janusz A. Urbanowicz
On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 10:37:51AM -0500, Phillip J. Eby wrote: > At 04:22 PM 11/25/2005 +0100, Janusz A. Urbanowicz wrote: > >On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 09:23:04AM -0500, Phillip J. Eby wrote: > >> Now, it's possible for an individual coder to write an application or &g

Re: [Distutils] formencode as .egg in Debian ??

2005-11-25 Thread Janusz A. Urbanowicz
On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 09:23:04AM -0500, Phillip J. Eby wrote: > At 01:07 PM 11/25/2005 +0100, Janusz A. Urbanowicz wrote: > >On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 10:29:56AM +, Donovan Baarda wrote: > >> On Fri, 2005-11-25 at 01:33 -0500, Phillip J. Eby wrote: > >> [... long inf

Re: [Distutils] formencode as .egg in Debian ??

2005-11-25 Thread Janusz A. Urbanowicz
On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 10:29:56AM +, Donovan Baarda wrote: > On Fri, 2005-11-25 at 01:33 -0500, Phillip J. Eby wrote: > [... long informative explanation of egg...] > In particular, will an egg wrapped inside a Debian package magically > install other bits of software not from Debian packages?

Re: [Distutils] formencode as .egg in Debian ??

2005-11-25 Thread Janusz A. Urbanowicz
On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 11:46:58AM -0500, Phillip J. Eby wrote: > At 04:20 PM 11/24/2005 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > >Le jeudi 24 novembre 2005 ? 10:14 -0500, Phillip J. Eby a écrit : > >> At 01:44 PM 11/24/2005 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > >> >They only introduce more complexity, instead

Re: [Distutils] formencode as .egg in Debian ??

2005-11-25 Thread Janusz A. Urbanowicz
On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 01:05:14PM -0500, Phillip J. Eby wrote: > > What you're saying is, you want TurboGears to be able to blindly trust that > its dependencies are installed. This doesn't help users, though, because > it keeps the package author from being able to provide *end-user support*