Wheel-reinvention with Python

Cliff Wells cliff at develix.com
Mon Aug 1 16:54:58 EDT 2005


On Mon, 2005-08-01 at 13:38 -0700, Paul Rubin wrote:
> Peter Decker <pydecker at gmail.com> writes:
> > We were discussing your 'enormous pain' installing wxPython. I find it
> > interesting that you selectively quoted part of one line of my post,
> 
> Yes, the one line I quoted was the one that said most people have
> wxPython installed, which is a preposterous claim.  The reason they
> don't have it installed is they don't have reason to go through the
> hassle of installing it, given (among other things) that tkinter is
> already there.  If they don't want to go through that hassle, I don't
> see why I should want to go through it.

I seriously hope you are being intentionally obtuse, otherwise your
difficulties with wxPython have acquired a sharply illuminated source.
It was quite clear that by saying "most people" he was not referring to
the set of "most Python users", but rather the set of "most people who
have tried wxPython".

Cliff

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