Will Python 3.x ever become the actual standard?

[Mark Lawrence]

On 23/10/2013 15:01, Tim Golden wrote:
> On 23/10/2013 14:52, Skip Montanaro wrote:
>>> Thankfully I am.  I confess I don't understand how *nix people endure having
>>> to compile code instead of having a binary install.  To me it's like going
>>> to the garage to buy a new car, being shown the parts and the tool kit and
>>> being told to get on with it.  Perhaps it's a case of second class treatment
>>> for users of a second class OS?  Ducks and runs for cover :)
>>
>> And we can't understand how you can put up without source. :-) Also,
>> Unix isn't one platform like Windows, ABI incompatibility and all.
>>
>> Really, for most things these days it's just
>>
>>      pip install foo
>
> Disregarding Mark's tongue-in-cheek rhetoric for now...

Never :)

perhaps you
> didn't realise that, on Windows, you can't pip install a binary (that's
> a problem the new wheel format is solving). And, even if you have the
> correct compiler toolchain, building more complex packages from source
> can be daunting, essentially because of the lack of standard source
> layout on Windows.
>
> TJG
>

Thanks for the heads up.  I didn't realise that wheel solved this 
problem.  From my viewpoint thats the bee's knees.

-- 
Python is the second best programming language in the world.
But the best has yet to be invented.  Christian Tismer

Mark Lawrence