Re: Python package Management GUI - New Project on Sourceforge

2009-02-02 Thread David Lyon
Hi Dave, > As of now, Enstaller 3.x is a command-line only tool but it does > provide a lot of benefits over standard setuptools -- uninstall, > update/upgrade command, found eggs aren't pre-pended to the full > sys.path but instead inserted before the containing directory, etc. Sounds extremely

Re: Python package Management GUI - New Project on Sourceforge

2009-02-02 Thread Dave Peterson
On Feb 1, 10:57 pm, David Lyon wrote: > > What's wrong with Enstaller from Enthought ? > > for a start > > onhttps://svn.enthought.com/enthought/wiki/Enstaller > > it claims to be depracated... Hello, Actually it was version 2.x and earlier that was deprecated and we just hadn't updated that

Re: Python package Management GUI - New Project on Sourceforge

2009-02-02 Thread Scott David Daniels
Gabriel Rossetti wrote: ... Well, isn't tkinter being removed? (http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3108/) To quote the referenced PEP: Rejected Ideas Modules that were originally suggested for removal ... * Tkinter o Would prevent IDLE from existing. o No GUI

Re: Python package Management GUI - New Project on Sourceforge

2009-02-02 Thread Wolfgang Keller
> David, I would really recommend that you > seriously consider using the Tcp/Tk toolkit. I would seriously disrecommend using Tcl/Tk. > Why ? Because it doesn't allow to build a GUI application with not-ridiculous functionality, "look-and-feel" and quirk-free behaviour. > Because of my point a

Re: Python package Management GUI - New Project on Sourceforge

2009-02-01 Thread Stephen Hansen
> Well, isn't tkinter being removed? > (http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3108/) PEP3108 isn't only about removals, but some renaming and reorganizations of certain packages / modules to be consistent within the standard library. In that section of PEP3108 they're talking about grouping tkinter m

Re: Python package Management GUI - New Project on Sourceforge

2009-02-01 Thread Gabriel Rossetti
James Mills wrote: On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 2:57 PM, David Lyon wrote: To be truly cross platform, consider using the Tcl/Tk toolkit rather tahn wxWindows. Why ? Because Tcl/TK is packaged and provided along with most Python distributions. I agree with your point.. The problem is that

Re: Python package Management GUI - New Project on Sourceforge

2009-02-01 Thread James Mills
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 2:57 PM, David Lyon wrote: >> To be truly cross platform, consider >> using the Tcl/Tk toolkit rather tahn >> wxWindows. Why ? Because Tcl/TK >> is packaged and provided along with >> most Python distributions. > > I agree with your point.. > > The problem is that Tcl/TK is

Re: Python package Management GUI - New Project on Sourceforge

2009-02-01 Thread David Lyon
> What's wrong with Enstaller from Enthought ? for a start on https://svn.enthought.com/enthought/wiki/Enstaller it claims to be depracated... > Can I make a few suggestions ? Sure.. > To be truly cross platform, consider > using the Tcl/Tk toolkit rather tahn > wxWindows. Why ? Because T

Re: Python package Management GUI - New Project on Sourceforge

2009-02-01 Thread James Mills
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 2:17 PM, David Lyon wrote: > Hi all, > > I am pleased to announce that we have started a new python > project on sourceforge. > > Python Package Manager > pythonpkgmgr.sourceforge.net > > The goal is to provide a cross platform GUI tool that will > vastly simplify loading

Python package Management GUI - New Project on Sourceforge

2009-02-01 Thread David Lyon
Hi all, I am pleased to announce that we have started a new python project on sourceforge. Python Package Manager pythonpkgmgr.sourceforge.net The goal is to provide a cross platform GUI tool that will vastly simplify loading and installing packages under python. - written in python