installing wxPython on Linux and Windows

[Jp Calderone]

On Thu, 02 Dec 2004 15:29:53 +0100, Peter Maas <peter at somewhere.com> wrote:
>Diez B. Roggisch schrieb:
> >>Same task on Win2k: download wxPython-setup.exe, double-click, done.
> >>Took me approx. 1 minute. This strikes me. Why are some tasks so hard
> >>on Linux and so easy on Windows? After all wxPython/Win and wxPython/Lin
> >>are made by the same developers. My guess: the software deployment
> >>infrastructure on Linux needs to be improved.
> > 
> > 
> > On debian, it 
> > 
> > apt-get install wxPython2.5.3
> > 
> 
> I have heard praises of Debian's install system but Debian is quite
> conservative with latest versions. There are some packages (e.g. Python,
> PostgreSQL, Subversion) where I'd like to have the latest versions.
> I don't want to be too tightly bound to the update cycles of the
> Linux distribution.
> 

exarkun at boson:~$ apt-cache show python2.4
Package: python2.4
Priority: optional
Section: python
Installed-Size: 10972
Maintainer: Matthias Klose <doko at debian.org>
Architecture: i386
Version: 2.3.97-2
Provides: python2.4-cjkcodecs
Depends: libbz2-1.0, libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-4), libdb4.2, libncurses5 (>= 5.4-1), libreadline4 (>= 4.3-1), libssl0.9.7, zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.1)
Suggests: python2.4-iconvcodec | python2.4-japanese-codecs, python2.4-iconvcodec | python2.4-korean-codecs, python2.4-doc
Conflicts: python2.4-dev (<< 2.3.95-2)
Filename: pool/main/p/python2.4/python2.4_2.3.97-2_i386.deb
Size: 3503764
MD5sum: 519ed28c52bff645b311b8d5d27b2318
Description: An interactive high-level object-oriented language (version 2.4)
 Version 2.4 of the high-level, interactive object oriented language,
 includes an extensive class library with lots of goodies for
 network programming, system administration, sounds and graphics.

Package: python2.4
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: python
Installed-Size: 9764
Maintainer: Matthias Klose <doko at debian.org>
Version: 2.3.90-1
Replaces: python2.4-xmlbase
Provides: python2.4-xmlbase
Depends: libbz2-1.0, libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-4), libdb4.2, libncurses5 (>= 5.4-1), libreadline4 (>= 4.3-1), libssl0.9.7, zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.1)
Recommends: python2.4-iconvcodec | python2.4-cjkcodecs | python2.4-japanese-codecs, python2.4-iconvcodec | python2.4-cjkcodecs | python2.4-korean-codecs
Suggests: python2.4-doc
Conflicts: python2.4-xmlbase, python2.4-csv
Conffiles:
 /etc/python2.4/site.py b448b0f87294e041b8276ea3459df4a8
Description: An interactive high-level object-oriented language (version 2.4)
 Version 2.4 of the high-level, interactive object oriented language,
 includes an extensive class library with lots of goodies for
 network programming, system administration, sounds and graphics.

  This is a long and obnoxious way of pointing out that Python 2.4 is already available as a Python package :)  How much more up to date software can you ask for?

  And even if there are packages that aren't available, don't you think effort put into a packaging system would better be put into apt than an entirely new system that is guaranteed to be less useful than apt for many years?

  Jp