Re: Tutorial

OK, then i'm right on track  ... Thx.

On Dec 8, 2016 3:40 PM, "Stephen R. van den Berg" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Arie van Wingerden wrote:
> >QUESTION: is Pike self-contained in the sense that all module
> functionality
> >is included (so, no extra installs needed to function)?
>
> >Reason is that Python is so difficult to deploy. If I can:
> >1. install Pike for somebody
> >2. hand them a Pike script
> >and then the script runs right out of the box, that would be a huge
> >improvement over the Python way, where you have to 'pip install' a lot of
> >extra stuff in many cases ...!
>
> Differences between Pike and Python/Perl/Ruby at module level are
> that Python/Perl/Ruby typically have a much larger userbase, and thus
> more contributors, and thus a much larger number of add-on
> modules/libraries;
> on the contrary Pike has are larger number of modules that are part
> of the core distribution, and the quality of implementation of those
> core distribution modules on general is much higher than the myriad of
> add-on modules for Python/Perl/Ruby.
>
> So, yes, that would/could mean that a standard Pike install is more
> complete than a standard Python install.
> YMMV, though.
> --
> Stephen.
>