Python evolution: Unease

[michele.simionato at gmail.com]

Paul Rubin:
> I'm now running the Python
> that was included in Fedora Core 3 GNU/Linux, a complete OS distro on
> a DVD-ROM, containing about 3 gigabytes not including sources. And
> when a user installs 3 gigabytes of software from a DVD, they can
> reasonably expect that they've installed a complete system and
> shouldn't need to download anything additional to use all the
features
> of the programs on the DVD. Now the Fedora maintainers aren't Python
> gurus--people ask for Python so they did the obvious thing:
downloaded
> it, ran its installer, put the output into their distro, and said
"ok,
> Fedora has Python". That's all they should need to do to incorporate
> Python into Fedora. So it's up to the Python maintainers, not the
> Fedora maintainers or the user, to make sure that the Python distro
> has everything that users need, without further downloading.

Dunno about Fedora, I stopped using Red Hat just because they were
*not* using
the standard Python distribution, and the version they shipped was
cripped  in various
ways. There is nothing the Python developers can do if the OS vendors
choose to ship
modified Python distributions, with missing modules or splitted in n
separated packages
to download separately.

       Michele Simionato