Help: Python for a big commercial project?
Gerhard Häring
gh_pythonlist at gmx.de
Wed Apr 10 07:43:40 EDT 2002
* Cereal Muesli <cereal_con_fibra at hotmail.com> [2002-04-10 13:24 +0200]:
> - First of all; do you think that Python is suitable for this
> kind of "serious, big" project?
Yes.
> - The core DW system and ETL logic runs under a HP-UX 11 system.
Dunno much about HP-UX, but I did once manage to build Python 2.0 for a
HP-UX 10 (or was it 9) system. It was certainly more pain than on other
platforms.
> - Installation: How easy or how hard is the installation of
> Python for HP-UX 11? I don't want to disturb sys admins more
> than necessary; do they have to compile everything? Do they
> need to install GCC to do that? Are there any reliable
> full-featured pre-built binaries for this platform available to
> "download-and-install-in-a-minute"?
I don't think there are any prebuilt binaries for most Unixen, but a
competent sysadmin will compile once and move the resulting binary
tarball to the other machines. Or even use rdist or install Python on a
NFS mounted directory.
> - Finally: Which version of Python should we use?
2.2.1, definitely.
> it seems that 1.5.x still rules under *NIX, doesn't it?
No. 1.5.2 doesn't rule at all, it's only that one (!) certain Linux
distribution still uses it by default for very stupid reasons.
Gerhard
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