Ruby is beautiful (but I'm moving to Python)

Re:Ruby is beautiful (but I'm moving to Python) by cookietime on Sunday November 28, 2010 @08:28PM (#1949002)

For anyone who wants to help Python wrt packaging, get behind [Tarek] and his work on distutils2. That's the future of Python packaging (with Guido's blessing) [^1]. More info on python packaging temporarily at http://guide.python-distribute.org/ .

There's also a [packaging discussion group] which seems to be primarily focused on distutils2 development.

[Tarek]: http://ziade.org/

[^1]: http://tarekziade.wordpress.com/2010/03/03/the-fate-of-distu...

[packaging discussion group]: http://groups.google.com/group/the-fellowship-of-the-packagi...

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Re:Ruby is beautiful (but I'm moving to Python) by cdavid on Sunday November 28, 2010 @09:20PM (#1949125)

I am aware of distutils2 - the consensus in the scipy community is that it won't improve the situation at best, and will most likely make it even worse.

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Re:Ruby is beautiful (but I'm moving to Python) by cookietime on Sunday November 28, 2010 @09:30PM (#1949151)

Sorry, didn't mean to address you personally. Edited my post.

Also, will study your Oct. 13 blog post on the matter to learn more about the issues.

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Re:Ruby is beautiful (but I'm moving to Python) by cdavid on Sunday November 28, 2010 @11:22PM (#1949368)

ah, sorry for the misunderstanding. Note that I don't pretend to be authoritative on the subject (although I think it is fair to say I am within the scipy community).

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