[Pythonmac-SIG] a beginner's list

[Ronald Oussoren]

On 9-feb-2006, at 16:34, has wrote:
>
> As has been said elsewhere, if the aim is to market Python to a  
> broad audience then it's at least as much an exercise in  
> influencing perceptions as technical merit. And often folk just  
> don't like to be presented with a long list of things to download  
> and install before they're able to do anything. e.g. Back before  
> Nick stepped in with his all-in-one installer, some folks fair  
> moaned about having to install a half-dozen simple distutils  
> packages in order to use appscript. Even though the latter approach  
> only took an extra minute or two in practice, in the end it was  
> simpler and much more effective to cater to their "unreasonable"  
> demands than lecture them on why "they" were "wrong".

Totally off-topic, but if you'd move to setuptools you can keep  
several separate packages, but users could install using  
'easy_install appscript' which would then take care of the  
dependencies for you.

Ronald
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