Which linux distros have Python by default?

Thomas Wouters thomas at xs4all.net
Wed Jun 14 14:00:12 EDT 2000


On Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 05:48:50PM +0000, Eric Lee Green wrote:

> But I would strongly suggest using TCL/Tk instead if it is a simple little
> configuration program, because I don't know of any Linux distribution that
> does not come with TCL/Tk -- amongst other things, 'make xconfig' needs TCL/Tk
> in order to work. TCL is brain-dead, but for simple stuff it's usable. 

Actually, Eric Raymond is (or at least was) working on a replacement for the
current kernel config tools (make (old|x|menu|)config) and he is writing it
in Python. Not that it hasn't spawned a huge thread on the linux-kernel
list, though ;)

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