War chest for writing web apps in Python?

Rob Sinclar lunixinclar at orange.fr
Sat Jul 29 05:25:00 EDT 2006


On Saturday 29 July 2006 03:43, Nick Vatamaniuc wrote:
> 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.

Synaptic is using aptitude as back-end (this is serious).
I also find deb system being the best. Managed with aptitude, not apt.
Windows is definitely worth the effort.

Best Regards,
Rob



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