[Thomas Kluyver, 2013-09-18] > From a developer point of view: this leaves you dependent on other people > to get the latest release of your software to users, which can be very > frustrating. For instance, I'm a developer for IPython: we made a 1.0 > release over a month ago, and there's already been a 1.1 release since > then, but Debian unstable still doesn't have either of these. This is not > to criticise our packager, who we have a good relationship with, but simply > to point out that this system is beyond our control. If we recommend that > people use apt/yum/port/whatever to install IPython, they'll get an old > package, with bugs that we've already fixed. By contrast, we update the > packages on PyPI at release time, so users installing with pip will always > get the current version. I understand your point and I'm not saying PyPI is something bad, I just wish these tools use their own namespace and leave system files alone. -- Piotr Ożarowski Debian GNU/Linux Developer www.ozarowski.pl www.griffith.cc www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: 1D2F A898 58DA AF62 1786 2DF7 AEF6 F1A2 A745 7645
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