RELEASED Python 2.3.4, release candidate 1

[Laughlin, Joseph V]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Erik Max Francis [mailto:max at alcyone.com] 
> Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 2:39 PM
> To: python-list at python.org
> Subject: Re: RELEASED Python 2.3.4, release candidate 1
> 
> 
> beliavsky at aol.com wrote:
> 
> > Thanks to the Python developers for their continuing work.
> > 
> > I wonder why the Linux installation needs to be more 
> tedious than the 
> > Windows counterpart. The problem is of course not specific 
> to Python. 
> > There are many Linux distributions, running on different 
> kernels, but 
> > maybe binaries that have been tested on the "major" 
> distributions like 
> > Debian, Red Hat / Fedora, SUSE, and Mandrake could be created.
> 
> Why do you think the standard and near-universal ./configure 
> && make && make install is tedious?
> 

I would avoid installing applications that way, if only for the fact
that you can't uninstall an application.  Package management exists for
a reason. And once a package is created, installing the  application
should be a snap.