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| From | David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.c, comp.lang.c++ |
| Subject | Re: A love of languages |
| Date | 2022-04-08 15:08 +0200 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <t2pc4k$dq7$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
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Cross-posted to 2 groups.
On 08/04/2022 14:16, Juha Nieminen wrote: > In comp.lang.c++ Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus@gmx.de> wrote: >> Additionally, it's hard to get Bash working on Windows. Bash is rather >> useless without a bunch of other tools like awk, sed, cp, mv, find, ... >> >> It is way easier to get a working Python installation. > > Is Python any easier? > > It's not like you can just run "apt install python" in Windows. > Installing Python on Windows is simple - using the standard Windows installation method. Go to "www.python.org", click "Downloads", click "Windows", and download and install it. (Or perhaps skip a click or two by just googling "install python" on a Windows machine.) If you want to do more complicated Python work on Windows, and have multiple versions installed, it can get a little more complicated. But for simple "install the latest Python", it's easy. But anyone making a Python program that they want to make easy for Windows can also use "py2exe" (or a similar system - there are a few to choose from) that combines your Python code along with the Python runtime, interpreter and required libraries, into a single exe file. It can be quite big - you probably have a minimum size of about 8 or 10 MB, but that's rarely a problem. The user gets the convenience of installing it and running it as a stand-alone program with no extra dependencies, while the developer gets the convenience of writing in Python with all its high-level libraries. The great majority of general-purpose Linux systems already have Python installed by default - so the usual Linux installation method is to do nothing. (The only relatively modern Linux systems I have seen that don't have Python don't have bash either - they have busybox for their shell.) Installing bash, awk, sed, and friends on Windows is not rocket science either, but you need to know more - generally, the best way IMHO (other than WSL or similar) is to install msys2. And you can get Python with that too :-) (To get vaguely back to the newsgroups' topic, msys2 is also a good way to get gcc, g++, make, binutils, and such programs for use on Windows.) > (Of course in modern Windows there's WSL which ought to make it much easier > to use Python, bash, or almost any other (non-graphical) unix tool you want.)
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A love of languages Jack Lemmon <invalid@invalid.net> - 2022-03-27 17:00 +0100
Re: A love of languages Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2022-03-27 18:24 +0200
Re: A love of languages Juha Nieminen <nospam@thanks.invalid> - 2022-03-28 23:08 +0000
Re: A love of languages Vir Campestris <vir.campestris@invalid.invalid> - 2022-03-30 21:53 +0100
Re: A love of languages David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2022-03-31 10:29 +0200
Re: A love of languages Mateusz Viste <mateusz@xyz.invalid> - 2022-03-31 10:52 +0200
Re: A love of languages David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2022-03-31 11:59 +0200
Re: A love of languages Kaz Kylheku <480-992-1380@kylheku.com> - 2022-03-31 16:15 +0000
Re: A love of languages Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2022-03-31 09:06 -0700
Re: A love of languages Muttley@dastardlyhq.com - 2022-03-31 08:29 +0000
Re: A love of languages Juha Nieminen <nospam@thanks.invalid> - 2022-04-04 06:00 +0000
Re: A love of languages Muttley@dastardlyhq.com - 2022-04-04 08:28 +0000
Re: A love of languages Vir Campestris <vir.campestris@invalid.invalid> - 2022-04-05 21:10 +0100
Re: A love of languages red floyd <no.spam.here@its.invalid> - 2022-04-05 13:28 -0700
Re: A love of languages om@iki.fi (Otto J. Makela) - 2022-04-11 13:24 -0400
Re: A love of languages om@iki.fi (Otto J. Makela) - 2022-04-11 19:13 -0400
Re: A love of languages legalize+jeeves@mail.xmission.com (Richard) - 2022-04-06 22:18 +0000
Re: A love of languages Muttley@dastardlyhq.com - 2022-04-07 09:02 +0000
Re: A love of languages David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2022-04-07 11:24 +0200
Re: A love of languages Muttley@dastardlyhq.com - 2022-04-07 09:42 +0000
Re: A love of languages David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2022-04-07 12:02 +0200
Re: A love of languages Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus@gmx.de> - 2022-04-07 21:54 +0200
Re: A love of languages Muttley@dastardlyhq.com - 2022-04-08 10:49 +0000
Re: A love of languages Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2022-04-08 05:21 -0700
Re: A love of languages Juha Nieminen <nospam@thanks.invalid> - 2022-04-08 12:16 +0000
Re: A love of languages David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2022-04-08 15:08 +0200
Re: A love of languages Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2022-04-08 15:31 +0100
Re: A love of languages David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2022-04-08 18:15 +0200
Re: A love of languages Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2022-04-08 19:14 +0100
Re: A love of languages scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2022-04-08 14:53 +0000
Re: A love of languages David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2022-04-08 18:18 +0200
Re: A love of languages scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2022-04-08 17:47 +0000
Re: A love of languages Muttley@dastardlyhq.com - 2022-04-09 09:13 +0000
Re: A love of languages scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2022-04-08 14:51 +0000
Re: A love of languages Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2022-04-16 13:39 -0700
Re: A love of languages Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2022-04-11 08:28 +0000
Re: A love of languages legalize+jeeves@mail.xmission.com (Richard) - 2022-04-07 20:54 +0000
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