Re: [Python-Dev] Software integrators vs end users (was Re: Language Summit notes)

2014-04-19 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On Fri, 18 Apr 2014 11:58:59 -0400 Nick Coghlan wrote: > > Software integrators: > > * Linux distributions and other operating system vendors > * Sumo redistributions (commercial or otherwise) > * "Python based environments" (PTVS, Enthought Canopy, wakari.io, > Python Anywhere, etc) > * Softwar

Re: [Python-Dev] Software integrators vs end users (was Re: Language Summit notes)

2014-04-19 Thread David Cournapeau
On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 11:28 PM, Donald Stufft wrote: > > On Apr 18, 2014, at 6:24 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote: > > > On 18 April 2014 18:17, Paul Moore wrote: > >> On 18 April 2014 22:57, Donald Stufft wrote: > >>> Maybe Nick meant ``pip install ipython[all]`` but I don’t actually > know what tha

Re: [Python-Dev] Software integrators vs end users (was Re: Language Summit notes)

2014-04-18 Thread Donald Stufft
On Apr 18, 2014, at 6:37 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote: > On 18 April 2014 18:28, Donald Stufft wrote: >> >> On Apr 18, 2014, at 6:24 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote: >> >>> On 18 April 2014 18:17, Paul Moore wrote: On 18 April 2014 22:57, Donald Stufft wrote: > Maybe Nick meant ``pip install ipy

Re: [Python-Dev] Software integrators vs end users (was Re: Language Summit notes)

2014-04-18 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 18 April 2014 18:28, Donald Stufft wrote: > > On Apr 18, 2014, at 6:24 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote: > >> On 18 April 2014 18:17, Paul Moore wrote: >>> On 18 April 2014 22:57, Donald Stufft wrote: Maybe Nick meant ``pip install ipython[all]`` but I don’t actually know what that inc

Re: [Python-Dev] Software integrators vs end users (was Re: Language Summit notes)

2014-04-18 Thread Donald Stufft
On Apr 18, 2014, at 6:24 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote: > On 18 April 2014 18:17, Paul Moore wrote: >> On 18 April 2014 22:57, Donald Stufft wrote: >>> Maybe Nick meant ``pip install ipython[all]`` but I don’t actually know >>> what that >>> includes. I’ve never used ipython except for the console.

Re: [Python-Dev] Software integrators vs end users (was Re: Language Summit notes)

2014-04-18 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 18 April 2014 18:17, Paul Moore wrote: > On 18 April 2014 22:57, Donald Stufft wrote: >> Maybe Nick meant ``pip install ipython[all]`` but I don’t actually know what >> that >> includes. I’ve never used ipython except for the console. > > The hard bit is the QT Console, but that's because the

Re: [Python-Dev] Software integrators vs end users (was Re: Language Summit notes)

2014-04-18 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 18 April 2014 18:16, Greg Ewing wrote: > Nick Coghlan wrote: >> >> there are actually now *two* main ways of consuming >> Python: > > > Really? We'd better do something about that. We don't want > anyone consuming Python -- we want some left over for the > rest of us! > > (I'm making a serious

Re: [Python-Dev] Software integrators vs end users (was Re: Language Summit notes)

2014-04-18 Thread Paul Moore
On 18 April 2014 22:57, Donald Stufft wrote: > Maybe Nick meant ``pip install ipython[all]`` but I don’t actually know what > that > includes. I’ve never used ipython except for the console. The hard bit is the QT Console, but that's because there aren't wheels for PySide AFAICT. Paul _

Re: [Python-Dev] Software integrators vs end users (was Re: Language Summit notes)

2014-04-18 Thread Greg Ewing
Nick Coghlan wrote: there are actually now *two* main ways of consuming Python: Really? We'd better do something about that. We don't want anyone consuming Python -- we want some left over for the rest of us! (I'm making a serious point -- it's annoying when people use the word "consume" as th

Re: [Python-Dev] Software integrators vs end users (was Re: Language Summit notes)

2014-04-18 Thread Donald Stufft
On Apr 18, 2014, at 5:48 PM, Paul Moore wrote: > On 18 April 2014 22:40, Nick Coghlan wrote: >> Perhaps we can get the "pip install ipython" experience to a good >> place faster than I currently expect, and we can duck this entire >> question (at least for Windows and Mac OS X). > > Huh? Last

Re: [Python-Dev] Software integrators vs end users (was Re: Language Summit notes)

2014-04-18 Thread Paul Moore
On 18 April 2014 22:40, Nick Coghlan wrote: > Perhaps we can get the "pip install ipython" experience to a good > place faster than I currently expect, and we can duck this entire > question (at least for Windows and Mac OS X). Huh? Last time I tried, it was pretty trivial. pip install pyzmq pyr

Re: [Python-Dev] Software integrators vs end users (was Re: Language Summit notes)

2014-04-18 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 18 April 2014 17:22, Donald Stufft wrote: > > On Apr 18, 2014, at 5:08 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote: > >> On 18 April 2014 16:50, Donald Stufft wrote: >>> So I’m not really worried about a competition or anything. I’m mostly >>> worried >>> about confusion of users. What you’re suggestion we give

Re: [Python-Dev] Software integrators vs end users (was Re: Language Summit notes)

2014-04-18 Thread Paul Moore
On 18 April 2014 22:08, Nick Coghlan wrote: > Note that one of my requirements was that "pip install foo" *must* do > the right thing in conda environments (whatever we decide the "right > thing" means in that context). Is this specifically a requirement for conda? Or do you expect the same to be

Re: [Python-Dev] Software integrators vs end users (was Re: Language Summit notes)

2014-04-18 Thread Donald Stufft
On Apr 18, 2014, at 5:08 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote: > On 18 April 2014 16:50, Donald Stufft wrote: >> So I’m not really worried about a competition or anything. I’m mostly worried >> about confusion of users. What you’re suggestion we give to use is *two* ways >> to install Python packages (and 2

Re: [Python-Dev] Software integrators vs end users (was Re: Language Summit notes)

2014-04-18 Thread Paul Moore
On 18 April 2014 21:59, Nick Coghlan wrote: > What I am advocating for is that *we are currently doing it wrong*, as > these are unlikely to be the best thing to install for most new Python > users. For Windows users at least, I disagree. I have directed a lot of people to the python.org Windows

Re: [Python-Dev] Software integrators vs end users (was Re: Language Summit notes)

2014-04-18 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 18 April 2014 16:50, Donald Stufft wrote: > So I’m not really worried about a competition or anything. I’m mostly worried > about confusion of users. What you’re suggestion we give to use is *two* ways > to install Python packages (and 2 or 3 ways to virtualize a Python instance). Note that on

Re: [Python-Dev] Software integrators vs end users (was Re: Language Summit notes)

2014-04-18 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 18 April 2014 16:27, Paul Moore wrote: > On 18 April 2014 20:18, Nick Coghlan wrote: >> At this point, however, I'm mainly looking for consensus that there >> *are* two different problems to be solved here, and solving them both >> well in a single tool is likely to be nigh on impossible. (I'm

Re: [Python-Dev] Software integrators vs end users (was Re: Language Summit notes)

2014-04-18 Thread Donald Stufft
On Apr 18, 2014, at 4:50 PM, Donald Stufft wrote: > So I’m not really worried about a competition or anything. I’m mostly worried > about confusion of users. What you’re suggestion we give to use is *two* ways > to install Python packages (and 2 or 3 ways to virtualize a Python instance). > That

Re: [Python-Dev] Software integrators vs end users (was Re: Language Summit notes)

2014-04-18 Thread Donald Stufft
On Apr 18, 2014, at 4:22 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote: > On 18 April 2014 15:39, Donald Stufft wrote: >> >> On Apr 18, 2014, at 3:18 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote: >> >>> At this point, however, I'm mainly looking for consensus that there >>> *are* two different problems to be solved here, and solving th

Re: [Python-Dev] Software integrators vs end users (was Re: Language Summit notes)

2014-04-18 Thread Paul Moore
On 18 April 2014 20:18, Nick Coghlan wrote: > At this point, however, I'm mainly looking for consensus that there > *are* two different problems to be solved here, and solving them both > well in a single tool is likely to be nigh on impossible. (I'm aware > we're really on the wrong list for that

Re: [Python-Dev] Software integrators vs end users (was Re: Language Summit notes)

2014-04-18 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 18 April 2014 15:39, Donald Stufft wrote: > > On Apr 18, 2014, at 3:18 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote: > >> At this point, however, I'm mainly looking for consensus that there >> *are* two different problems to be solved here, and solving them both >> well in a single tool is likely to be nigh on impo

Re: [Python-Dev] Software integrators vs end users (was Re: Language Summit notes)

2014-04-18 Thread Donald Stufft
On Apr 18, 2014, at 3:18 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote: > At this point, however, I'm mainly looking for consensus that there > *are* two different problems to be solved here, and solving them both > well in a single tool is likely to be nigh on impossible. (I'm aware > we're really on the wrong list f

Re: [Python-Dev] Software integrators vs end users (was Re: Language Summit notes)

2014-04-18 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 18 April 2014 12:55, Paul Moore wrote: > On 18 April 2014 16:58, Nick Coghlan wrote: >> As part of thrashing out the respective distribution ecosystem roles >> of pip and conda (still a work in progress), we're at least converging >> on the notion that there are actually now *two* main ways of

Re: [Python-Dev] Software integrators vs end users (was Re: Language Summit notes)

2014-04-18 Thread Daniel Holth
On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 12:55 PM, Paul Moore wrote: > On 18 April 2014 16:58, Nick Coghlan wrote: >> As part of thrashing out the respective distribution ecosystem roles >> of pip and conda (still a work in progress), we're at least converging >> on the notion that there are actually now *two* ma

Re: [Python-Dev] Software integrators vs end users (was Re: Language Summit notes)

2014-04-18 Thread Paul Moore
On 18 April 2014 16:58, Nick Coghlan wrote: > As part of thrashing out the respective distribution ecosystem roles > of pip and conda (still a work in progress), we're at least converging > on the notion that there are actually now *two* main ways of consuming > Python: as a "software integrator"

Re: [Python-Dev] Software integrators vs end users (was Re: Language Summit notes)

2014-04-18 Thread Guido van Rossum
Could I summarize that as "software integrators build from source, while end users use an installer"? And the rest of the discussion is about which installer (in the widest sense of the word) to recommend, where the choices include Linux vendor distros, sumo Python distros, Mac/Win installers, as w