[wxPython-dev] 20071113 test build uploaded

[Robin Dunn]

Chris Mellon wrote:
> 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.


Agreed.  I don't plan on any changes to the linux package structures.


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