Chris Gonnerman chris.gonnerman at newcenturycomputers.net
Fri Dec 28 08:45:48 EST 2001

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alex Martelli" <aleax at aleax.it>


> "Tim Hammerquist" <tim at vegeta.ath.cx> wrote in message
> news:slrna2ltdp.sjg.tim at vegeta.ath.cx...
>     ...
> > If you have a sufficient devel environment and you are up to the
> > challenge, you can try to build Python yourself, but it may be more
> > trouble than it's worth if you're new to linux.
> 
> How so?  tar xzf, cd, ./configure, make, sudo make install -- how
> much trouble can that be?

One word:  Libraries.  Python isn't the headache that, say, GNOME
is that way, but it can be a hassle anyway.

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