On Tue, 06 Sep 2005 17:29:46 -0000, Grant Edwards <grante at visi.com> wrote: > On 2005-09-06, Jorgen Grahn <jgrahn-nntq at algonet.se> wrote: > >> I also believe it's better to convince the end user to install Python before >> installing the application[1], rather than to try to sneak in an interpreter >> with py2exe or something -- an interpreter which the end user cannot update, >> manage or use for other things. > > There's a typo in that last phrase. It should read "[...] -- > an interpreter the user isn't going to uninstall or break > because he doesn't know what it is or why it's there." I meant what I wrote, of course (and you should really have added a smiley.) Might be because I'm more at home in Linux (Debian). The bundling-an-interpreter approach to distribution software is simply not applicable on those platforms, for many different reasons. Maybe that's why I have a hard time even understanding the idea. I see lots of problems and few benefits. For example, the issue of security fixes. If there's a bug in Python which makes anyone running an interpreter vulnerable, how are those users even going to /find out/ about it? /Jorgen -- // Jorgen Grahn <jgrahn@ Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu \X/ algonet.se> R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!
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