On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 11:52:08PM +0100, Paul Moore wrote:
> And I would say that Windows doesn't have a problem. Are any Windows
> users proposing building a package management system for Windows
> (Python-specific or otherwise)? It's a genuine question - is this
> something that Windows users ar
On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 11:46:19PM +0100, Paul Moore wrote:
> I find this whole discussion hugely confusing, because a lot of people
> are stating opinions about environments which it seems they don't use,
> or know much about. I don't know how to avoid this, but it does make
> it highly unlikely t
On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 02:26:31PM -0400, Stanley A. Klein wrote:
> The rpm and deb package managers (and their yum and other higher level
> dependency managers) do a lot of things:
> 1. They install packages and maintain databases of what packages were
> installed
> 2. They manage dependencies
On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 12:41:32AM -0400, Phillip J. Eby wrote:
> >The way to achieve a database for Python would be to provide tools for
> >conversion of eggs to rpms and debs,
> Such tools already exist, although the conversion takes place from
> source distributions rather than egg distributio
On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 11:37:07AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
> zooko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I am skeptical that prorgammers are going to be willing to use a new
> > database format. They already have a database -- their filesystem --
> > and they already have the tools to control it -- mv,
On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 03:31:59PM -0500, Ron Adam wrote:
> - The html syntax highlighters. (Pydoc can use those)
I have a patch on the docutils patch tracker that does this. Code is
probably of a rather bad quality, but it outputs LaTeX and HTML. If we
can work together to improve this patc
