War chest for writing web apps in Python?

[Nick Vatamaniuc]

Aptitude, are you still using that? Just use Synaptic on Ubuntu. The
problem as I wrote in my post before is that for some IDEs you don't
just download an executable but because they are written for Linux
first, on  Windows you have to search and install a lot of helper
libraries that often takes quite a bit of time.

And why do you want to spend half an hour searching for stuff when you
can do just spend 1 minute in a nice graphical installer or use apt-get
install on the command line to  install it.

I am using Ubuntu primarily because it has the .deb system which I
found to be much better mentained and which deals with dependecies a
lot better.

Nick V.



Rob Sinclar wrote:
> > > I'm thinking of using Python to build the prototype for a business web
> > > appplication. The development and test machine is XP, while ultimate
> > > deployment will be on a shared Unix web host.
> > >
> > > What would you recommend I get, besides the Python engine itself? Good
> > > IDE (Kodomo?) ? Some kind of GUI designer? Add-on's? Other tools?
> > >
> > > Thank you.
>
> > If you plant to deploy on Unix/Linux, why develop on Windows?
> Because it's worth it. And faster. Read below.
>
> > just do 'apt-get install <my_new_ide>' (for
> > Debian based distros like Debian and Ubuntu that is) and your new IDE
> > will appear in the Programming menu.
> Nah I prefer to search half an hour on google, download an exe-installer
> for which I'll never see what it does or contain, double clic on it to launch
> installation procedure, clic 15 times on "ok" and I'm done.
> On the other hand aptitude is the worst thing ever for dependencies and
> that kind of stuff.
> 
> Best Regards,
> Rob