[Python-Dev] bsddb alternative (was Re: [issue3769] Deprecate bsddb for removal in 3.0) (original) (raw)

Bill Janssen janssen at parc.com
Thu Sep 4 18:39:19 CEST 2008

I have to say I've never had problems with a stock install of Python on either Mac OS X or Windows (shockingly enough :). I think this is good

I agree. I just use the stock Python on OS X and Windows. And it seems to work well for my rather large and complicated (PIL, PyLucene, Medusa, ReportLab, SSL, email-4) application. Clearly Windows, with its somewhat complicated PATH and DLL issues, might be problematic, but I haven't seen that yet.

advice for applications that rely on external libraries, but I just don't see any problems with relying on Python 2.5 to contain all the things that normally come with Python 2.5. It seems like you're pushing a pretty sharp dichotomy (trichotomy?) --

Yeah, but this is just some random guy on the Python mailing list (Tony, I apologize for not knowing who you are). No need to take it too seriously.

but it does validate my decade-old decision to avoid writing end-user applications in Python, sadly enough.

Well, I don't do that either, but it's because of Python's lack of a decent built-in GUI toolkit. Sad.

Bill

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