[Python-Dev] Playing with a new theme for the docs (original) (raw)

PJ Eby pje at telecommunity.com
Mon Mar 26 18:35:18 CEST 2012

On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 2:56 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen at xemacs.org>wrote:

But since he's arguing the other end in the directory layout thread (where he says there are many special ways to invoke Python so that having different layouts on different platforms is easy to work around), I can't give much weight to his preference here.

You're misconstruing my argument there: I said, rather, that the One Obvious Way to deploy a Python application is to dump everything in one directory, as that is the one way that Python has supported for at least 15 years now. Calling this a "special" way of invoking Python is disingenuous at best: it's the documented default way of deploying and invoking a Python script with accompanying libraries.

In contrast, the directory layout thread is about supporting virtualenvs, which aren't even in Python yet -- if anything is to be considered a special case, that would be it.

The comparison to CSS is also lost on me here; creating user-specific CSS is more aptly comparable telling people to write their own virtualenv implementations from scratch, and resizing the browser window is more akin to telling people to create a virtualenv every time they run the application, rather than just once when installing it. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/attachments/20120326/d1031284/attachment.html>

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