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Installing things on Linux is still a pain in the tuchus

I've been trying like mad to get web.py working over the last week. Getting the initial dependencies and base install was straightforward enough but now I'm stuck.

I can't get web.py to connect to Postgres using whatever the built-in Python DB library is and I can't get psycopg2 installed because of an endless series of bizarre errors. The documentation for both web.py and psycopg is less than stellar.

So I'm giving up.

I hope this makes every Linux developer out there shudder. How many people are dumping your software because they can't figure out how to install the freaking thing?

Yes, I know things have drastically improved with the various package systems out there. Yes, I know the Linux ecosystem is more complicated to handle installation for.

Guess what? I don't give a shit.

I don't want to waste a week just trying to get a piece of software to run. I want to write code.

And that's why I've switched over to CherryPy. The base install, including DB support, was one step and took me all of 5 minutes to do. Now I can get down to my primary goal of doing something fun in Python.

So, to all you Open Source projects out there, you're awesome and I love you! But you've got to spend more time on documentation and making installation easier if you want your project to really succeed.

^*^Yes, I know the install process on OSX is generally really good but, at this point, I still have more Windows experience to speak to.