[Pythonmac-SIG] [OT] advice on distributing for different OSs

[Chris Barker - NOAA Federal]

On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 2:10 AM, DavidWorrall <vip at avatar.com.au> wrote:
> maybe you'd like to help build one?
>
> mmm tempting. I'm moving continents ATM so it will have to wait a bit.

Who knows how much time I'll find for this, but my goal is to set up a
system (probably a gitHub project), and then others will be able to
contribute build scripts for particular packages. I'll certainly
annouce that effort when there is something to see...

If I can get this in place, I'm hoping that it will, in fact, be
easier to build new package by using this system that doing it from
scratch by hand, and once you've done it, why not contribute it back?

-Chris



> Enthought's offerings, for example. They seem pretty slick,

> When one installs their Canopy on the Mac, for example, they impose
> themselves on the Terminal prompt:
>
> (Canopy 32bit) drwIntel-6:~ drw$

you're kidding! Their installer messes with the prompt settings in
.bash_profile or somewhere? that really is too much! (I agree it's not
fatal, but WTF?)

> It's got the feel like Apple's own approach: take complete control of
> customer's computer/phone/etc
> Perhaps after years of this I'm ready to move to Linux.

I know the feeling...

-Chris

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