How come wxPython isn't in the standard library?

Christophe Cavalaria chris.cavalaria at free.fr
Mon Nov 8 18:50:17 EST 2004


James Stroud wrote:

> On Sunday 07 November 2004 06:43 am, BJörn Lindqvist wrote:
>> IMHO, this is a no issue. It doesn't matter that much if the source is
>> 8 or 26 mb. In fact, 8 mb is extremely small download for a
>> programming language.
> 
> What am I missing here? Lets look at it from an END USER's perspective. I
> come from a situation where I was sys-admin to where I am the 0 privelige
> user. I wanted to install a python module. So I called in the sys-admin.
> He tried to add it with RPM. This rpm depended on that rpm and that rpm
> depended on a chicken which depended on an egg which, expectedly, depended
> on a chicken--you can guess where this is going.

Bad sysadmin, change sysadmin. All you need to do then if you aren't using
some apt-like is to install all the offending rpms with a single command.
Yes, you can pass multiple rpm files to the rpm -i command.



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