[Distutils] "Python Package Management Sucks"

[Tarek Ziadé]

On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 12:37 PM, Chris Withers <chris at simplistix.co.uk>wrote:

> (I'll be CC'ing the distutils sig in to these replies as this discussion
> probably belongs there...)
>
> Nicolas Chauvat wrote:
>
>> The slides for my two talks can be found here:
>>>
>>> http://www.simplistix.co.uk/presentations
>>>
>>
>> "Python Package Management Sucks"
>>
>> Install debian and get back to productive tasks.
>
>
haha. :)

I just wanted to react on that:  I have created a setuptools-enabled package
for Pylint (logilab.pylintinstaller, see
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/logilab.pylintinstaller) with the bless of
Logilab, so people under Windows could use the tool with a one-liner
installation process...

So if you like Pylint and Python but you don't use Debian you can use that.



>
>>
> This is an almost troll-like answer.
> See page 35 of the presentation.
>
> If you're too lazy, here's a re-hash:
>
> - there are lots of different operating systems
>
> - even with Linux, there are many different package management systems
>
> - all the package management systems behave differently and expect packages
> to be set up differently for them
>
> - expecting package developers to shoulder this burden is unfair and
> results in various bitrotting repackaged versions of python packages rather
> than just one up-to-date version maintained by the entity originating the
> python package
>
> - Adobe Photoshop Plugins, Firefox Add-ons, etc do not delegate their
> management to an OS package manager. Packages are Python's "plugins" and so
> should get the same type of consistent, cross-platform package management
> targetted at the application in question, which is Python in this case.
>
> cheers,
>
> Chris
>
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