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Spreading Python applications (Linux.com)
Linux.com provides a
mini-tutorial on
distutils, the standard packaging tool for Python apps. "You have
just written a fantastic and useful Python application, and you're
ready to share it with the world. Distutils, a Python module that provides
a standard way of distributing and installing Python apps, can help you
simplify the process of installation."
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Linux.com adverts Posted Aug 14, 2007 0:33 UTC (Tue) by sjlyall (subscriber, #4151) [Link] I notice that every time I go to the linux.com website (when I don't have ad blockers) they have a microsoft anti-linux ad showing.
Linux.com adverts Posted Aug 14, 2007 1:36 UTC (Tue) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link] Just smile to yourself that Microsoft is helping to support Linux.com.
Linux.com adverts Posted Aug 14, 2007 2:51 UTC (Tue) by jordanb (guest, #45668) [Link] To what end though? I've seen a ton of Microsoft FUD on Linux.com (and the rest of the Sourceforge Inc. properties, actually).
indeed, let's smile also Posted Aug 14, 2007 3:38 UTC (Tue) by qu1j0t3 (guest, #25786) [Link] To ourselves that Slashdot (spiritual home of Linux) also takes MS' money in return for publishing lies-and-FUD-in-the-form-of-banner-ads. I confess this has provoked many hours of pondering, but enfin, as an ex-marketing worker, I conclude the site owners' calculation is probably correct: To the /. audience, MS is going to get very little value for marketing money: most readers are informed enough to know to avoid anything with the MS stain. Since money is all they have (no product, no ethics, no credibility, no place in civilised society), open source organisations might as well take it while it's offered. One only hopes it's offered in ever-increasing sums.
indeed, let's smile also Posted Aug 14, 2007 4:47 UTC (Tue) by allesfresser (subscriber, #216) [Link] Slashdot is hardly the 'spiritual home of Linux'. Perhaps Rob Enderle wishes that were so (with his diatribe about the wild-eyed great unwashed of Linux threatening all those nice businesspeople with dire threats of bodily harm), but it isn't. I would rather say, if there is such a thing as Linux's 'spiritual home' on the Internet, it would be here at LWN.
indeed, let's smile also Posted Aug 14, 2007 7:45 UTC (Tue) by kripkenstein (subscriber, #43281) [Link] Yes, Slashdot is more like the boisterous neighborhood pub of Linux than its spiritual home, I would say.
indeed, let's smile also Posted Aug 14, 2007 10:18 UTC (Tue) by jordanb (guest, #45668) [Link] That might have been the case five years ago, but now it seems to be split evenly between Apple fanboys and gamers (who use Windows).
So now it's the neighborhood pub that went yuppie
could have been phrased better, agreed, Posted Aug 14, 2007 11:37 UTC (Tue) by qu1j0t3 (guest, #25786) [Link] But congratulations to all respondents for engaging with the central idea of my post, and not being distracted by a hasty choice of (purely parenthetical) phrase.
could have been phrased better, agreed, Posted Aug 14, 2007 18:44 UTC (Tue) by pheldens (guest, #19366) [Link] you should block adds at dns level. (while you still can.)
ad blocking - no need Posted Aug 14, 2007 18:52 UTC (Tue) by qu1j0t3 (guest, #25786) [Link] I find myself oddly unswayed by MS propaganda. :-)
Spreading Python applications (Linux.com) Posted Aug 14, 2007 17:10 UTC (Tue) by zooko (subscriber, #2589) [Link] At the allmydata.org tahoe project, we've been figuring out how to use setuptools in a way that fits nicely with the native package manager and with other mechanisms that a user might employ such as GNU stow (which I love):
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