Python and IDEs [was Re: Python 3 is killing Python]

[Nicholas Cole]

On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 12:22 PM, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 9:10 PM, Wolfgang Keller <feliphil at gmx.net> wrote:
>> Thankfully, all actually user-friendly operating systems (MacOS,
>> TOS, RiscOS, probably AmigaOS, MacOS X) spare(d) their users the
>> bottomless cesspit of "package management" and/or "installers".
>>
>> Because on such operating systems, each and every application is an
>> entirely self-contained package that doesn't need any "packages" or
>> "installers" to use it.
>
> You mean everyone has to reinvent the proverbial wheel AND worry about
> dependency collisions? Yeah, that's a heavenly thought.

Actually, that's not right.  RiscOS had and OS X has (I'm sure the
others do as well) a concept that is similar to a shared library.  But
the joy of an application bundle is that installing an application
does not scatter its own files all over the file-system, putting
configuration files here, binary resources there, library files
somewhere else, executable files somewhere else again.  The result on
one of these other systems is that uninstalling an application is a
simple matter of deleting the relevant bundle, which contains all of
the resources necessary for that application.  All that remains are
whatever files exist within user directories.

I've worked with both.  Quite honestly, I really wish that other
operating systems had gone down this route. MS didn't possibly to make
it harder to steal software, and Unix...well, *nix has the concept of
the "distribution" that will manage all of this for you.  We all know
the problems that this causes.

N.