Dabo in 30 seconds?

[Cliff Wells]

On Mon, 2005-08-01 at 08:30 -0400, Ed Leafe wrote:
> On Sunday 31 July 2005 20:09, James Stroud wrote:

>  No problem. But let me ask you what would *not* have disappointed you. As 
> others have pointed out, you didn't compile the wxWidgets part of your 
> wxPython install so as to include the stylized text control (yes, it seems 
> silly that you should have to specify that, but that's another thread...)
> 
>  Should we have defensive code for every possible broken installation? We use 
> a lot of the Python standard library modules, many dbapi-compliant modules, 
> and, of course, wxPython. If someone mis-installs one of the pre-requisites, 
> do you expect Dabo to catch that and present you with a diagnostic message? 
> I'm serious here: I want to know what people consider acceptable for a 
> software package that relies on other packages. 

Personally, all I expect is an obvious pointer to a mailing list and a
helpful community willing to suffer NB questions (fast bugfixes is a big
plus too).  If that's available, I'm happy.  But then I'm willing to
actually work a little to get what I want.  For other it seems they
won't be happy unless you drive to their house and install it for them
(which only seems fair, cause if you hadn't volunteered to write such
crap then they wouldn't have had to be bothered with it in the first
place, damn you).  Maybe you wouldn't mind tidying up a bit and washing
a few dishes while you're at it?  


Can't *quite* get this spoon to my mouth'ly yours,
Cliff


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