On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 10:44:47AM -0400, Jim Fulton wrote: > On May 21, 2007, at 1:39 AM, Martijn Pieters wrote: > >Come again? Using the system python when developing has always been > >fine; > > No. It has never been fine for any aspect of development. If you > develop with your system Python and deploy with a custom environment, > then you've added a variable that is different between the two > environments. Also, system Python's are often hobbled in ways that > hurt development. > > I sometimes get really weird error reports that are traced to system > Pythons. People who report problems to me that result from using a > system Python make me angry and make me want to not answer their > questions or otherwise help them any more.
I'd love to hear some anecdotes about this. The ones I know about:
* distros releasing newer point versions of Python with security fixes
(cgi.FieldStorage) that break Zope 3
* distros splitting the Python profiler into a separate package due to
licencing problems, with a "helpful" stub that prints an informational
message (go apt-get install python-profiler) instead of raising
ImportError.
seem to be minor inconveniences rather than show-stoppers to me. I'd
love to hear real horror stories.
Marius Gedminas
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Westheimer's Discovery:
A couple of months in the laboratory can
frequently save a couple of hours in the library.
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