[Python-Dev] Distutils and Distribute roadmap (and some words on Virtualenv, Pip) (original) (raw)

Steven Bethard steven.bethard at gmail.com
Sun Oct 11 19:27:16 CEST 2009

On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 9:52 AM, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:

2009/10/9 Michael Foord <fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk>:

Many Windows users would be quite happy if the standard mechanism for installing non-source distributions on Windows was via the wininst binaries. +1 I'm one of those people.

+1 on installing packages on Windows through the native package manager (Add/Remove Programs).

I am working with Tarek to keep Windows issues (and in particular this one) on the agenda. It's quite hard at times, as getting a representative sample of Windows users' preferences/requirements is difficult at best (Windows users seem as a group to be either very quiet, or very easy to please. I'm an exception :-))

If any Windows users want to speak up and help, that would be immensely useful! (And please, identify yourself as such - it's often hard to determine who knows Windows, and who is a Unix user making assumptions or best guesses).

I'm a Windows user, and I've also spent a fair bit of time improving Python's bdist_msi support exactly so that we have better support for Windows native package management. However, I don't have enough time to keep up with the massive package management threads. If you want to CC me occasionally to get my feedback on a particular comment though, I'd be happy to speak up.

Steve

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