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I have found that the one system that doesn't give me any trouble running Python is Ubuntu. I'm using Ubuntu Server 10.4, specifically, which is the latest LTS
by jgalvez 16y ago
I have found that the one system that doesn't give me any trouble running Python is Ubuntu. I'm using Ubuntu Server 10.4, specifically, which is the latest LTS (Long Term Support) version.
Ubuntu 10.4 has Python 2.6 but I wanted Python 2.7 (which is the LAST 2.x version). So here's what I did: I installed all common dependencies (such as OpenSSL with "apt-get build-dep python2.6", since they're all the same for Python 2.7. Then I installed Python 2.7 with "make altinstall" without disrupting the system's base 2.6 install. Then, I got pip and virtualenv installed.
I've never been happier doing Python development. pip never failed to install a single package I needed, and Python 2.7 is fast and gives me a safe path of migration towards Python 3, whenever the whole byte/str issue in the network libraries (or at least WSGI) is 'resolved'.
- zedshaw 16y agoOh yeah, that's no trouble at all. <shakes head>
- jgalvez 16y agoOh well, you know, it's definitely not trouble enough to drive me away from Python. Despite the whole version madness across Linux distributions, Python is still my preferred language for web development, and even if that means going through a bit of trouble getting it properly installed on a particular system, hopefully that is something I'll only have to do and document once every few years. I surely hope all distros eventually catch up with Python 2.7 so we can all stop worrying about this. Thanks for taking the time to make some noise about it ;)