[OT] Weaknesses of distro package managers - was Re: Python 2 to 3 conversion - embrace the pain

[Mark Lawrence]

On 17/03/2015 03:05, Michael Torrie wrote:
> On 03/16/2015 09:01 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote:
>> Reading this makes me realise how lucky I am not having to worry about
>> such issues.
>
> How so?
>

I don't work due to ill health.  I use Python at home on Windows purely 
for my own needs which pip now covers, particularly given the relatively 
recent introduction of wheel files.  For anything else download the msi 
or exe file and click to install.  Seems like utopia compared to the 
real world that the rest of you have to live and work in.  Sure I have 
to do some research first and maybe make mistakes, but I do have the 
luxury of time, no boss and no stupid deadlines set by some dumbo sales 
person, sorry, account manager :)

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence