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Author ned.deily
Recipients BreamoreBoy, NaCl, barry, bkabrda, bwanamarko, doko, larry, ncoghlan, ned.deily, paul.moore, r.david.murray, rkuska, steve.dower, terry.reedy, tim.golden, zach.ware
Date 2015-03-22.02:59:33
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This issue seems to be expanding widely in scope and it is not at all clear to me what actionable items would come out of it.  It started as a very Window-specific problem and now seems to somehow be being extended to the whole Python ecosphere.  What about the OS X world, arguably one of the most widely-used laptop development environment these days?  Apple distributes system Pythons with OS X.  There are the python.org installers for OS X.  There are third-party suppliers of popular binary wheels and or installers for important packages (e.g. NumPy, pandas, matplotlib) for one or both of the above. There are very popular third-party general open-source package distributors for OS X: Homwbrew and MacPorts, to a lesser extent, Fink. All of them distribute Pythons and many Python packages.  Then there are the cross-platform distributors, like Anaconda, Enthought, ActiveState, etc.  Should they all be part of this discussion?  What about other Posix-y platforms, like FreeBSD?  Where do you see this discussion going and is this a good forum for it?
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2015-03-22 02:59:33ned.deilysetrecipients: + ned.deily, barry, terry.reedy, doko, paul.moore, ncoghlan, larry, tim.golden, r.david.murray, BreamoreBoy, zach.ware, bkabrda, steve.dower, bwanamarko, rkuska, NaCl
2015-03-22 02:59:33ned.deilysetmessageid: <1426993173.89.0.367164438265.issue22516@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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