GNU/Linux vs. Windows as Python platform
D-Man
dsh8290 at rit.edu
Fri May 18 11:07:22 EDT 2001
On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 07:19:21AM +0000, Terry Reedy wrote:
|
| and wonder if there might be good enough reasons to add Linux to this or my
| next machine, perhaps within the next year.
Sure -- Linux is stabler, faster, and more useable (all IMO) than
Windows. :-)
| By binaries, I was thinking of extension modules like PIL, wxPython, etc
| for which the developers have often made Windows binaries but not
| everything else.
# for PIL
$ apt-get install python-imaging
# for wxPython
$ apt-get install libwxgtk2.2-python
Check out Debian's package list at
http://packages.debian.org
Debian has a lot (>4000 I think) packages. There are a lot of
prebuilt python extensions neatly bundled up into packages.
Installation is as simple as the above commands.
-D
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