sdispater/poet

Poet should not need a compiler to be installed

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sametmax commented

The whole purpose of this tool is to make things easier for beginners.

Now I tried pip install pypoet under Ubuntu, but it depends on psutil, which has C extensions, hence it requires Python headers and fails. I can fix that with an apt install in 3 sec.

A beginner ?

3 hours of googling around, copy pasting, learning about gcc and headers and packages name differences accross Fedora/Ubuntu and python versions and virtualenv isolation and not understanding what the heck is going on. And maybe a bit of crying.

I really love the whole poet concept. I tried PBR and pipenv but I think the way you do things is much better generally. But it will not be popular if most first trial is an obscure error message.

sdispater commented

Thanks for reporting this.

I completely agree. psutil is not an important dependency of cleo so I will likely make it optional to avoid it being installed by default in poet.

I will target this for the next version.

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