Why is installing Python stuff suddenly such a pain in the ass?
February 14th, 2007It suddenly occurred to me today that I really don’t know what the right way to install Python packages is, any more.
This state of affairs drives me inSANE.
I’m just a run of the mill guy who uses Python for lots of stuff. And increasingly, I find that I just don’t bother to figure out how to install things that I might like to try, because I really just don’t feel like taking the time to install yet another installation system.
Maybe I sound like a whiney bastard or something, I don’t know. Maybe there’s something utterly heinous about $ python setup.py install that my little brain just doesn’t get, I dunno.
What I DO know is that I now officially loathe installing Python stuff. That means that I’m installing less Python stuff. Which means that I’m increasingly looking for Ruby stuff.
Which bums me out, because personally I like Python way more than Ruby.