[wxPython-dev] 20071113 test build uploaded

[Chris Mellon]

On Nov 15, 2007 12:28 PM, Robin Dunn <robin at alldunn.com> wrote:
> Alexei Vinidiktov wrote:
> > Peter Damoc wrote:
> >> Actually, there are reasons to keep them separated BUT only for the
> >> library (to facilitate easy security/bugfixes updates on sane systems
> >> like Linux).
> >>
> >> But, IMHO, The Demo should always come bundled with the latest and
> >> greatest wxpython distribution. Almost nobody updates The Demo without
> >> updating the library.
> >>
> >
> > I think you're right. There should be two separate packages: one for the
> > wxPython library, and the other for the wxPython library together with
> > the Demo. That's what I actually wanted to suggest, not merging them.
>
> Ok guys, thanks for the feedback.  I'll take a look at shifting things
> around to have a "full" or "developers" package and also a
> "runtime-only" package.  This actually might go along well with some
> ideas I am kicking around for the OS X packages...  It won't be done for
> this release though.
>

There's not much point in merging them for debian/ubuntu and any other
platform that has a package manager with dependency resolution. It'd
be nice for windows and OS X, though.