Why is there no platform independent way of clearing a terminal?
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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro on 1 Aug 2010 03:18 In message <mailman.1382.1280646210.1673.python-list(a)python.org>, Mark Lawrence wrote: > On 01/08/2010 07:50, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > >> In message<mailman.1381.1280643817.1673.python-list(a)python.org>, Mark >> Lawrence wrote: >> >>> Personally I find double clicking on an msi file rather easier. >> >> Easier than apt-get dist-upgrade? > > I'm sorry but I only do English, could you please translate. :) I run Debian Unstable, which has new goodies coming out on a weekly basis. The last time I checked for updates, there were over 500 packages I had installed for which updates were available. It only took a command like the above to upgrade them all. How many .msi files would you have to click on to achieve the Windows equivalent?
From: Mark Lawrence on 1 Aug 2010 03:52 On 01/08/2010 08:18, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > In message<mailman.1382.1280646210.1673.python-list(a)python.org>, Mark > Lawrence wrote: > >> On 01/08/2010 07:50, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: >> >>> In message<mailman.1381.1280643817.1673.python-list(a)python.org>, Mark >>> Lawrence wrote: >>> >>>> Personally I find double clicking on an msi file rather easier. >>> >>> Easier than apt-get dist-upgrade? >> >> I'm sorry but I only do English, could you please translate. :) > > I run Debian Unstable, which has new goodies coming out on a weekly basis. > The last time I checked for updates, there were over 500 packages I had > installed for which updates were available. It only took a command like the > above to upgrade them all. > > How many .msi files would you have to click on to achieve the Windows > equivalent? No idea, but your mental capacity is clearly infinitely higher than mine, as I simply couldn't cope with over 500 installed packages. What do they all do, make your lunch and fetch the beer from the fridge amongst other things? Cheers. Mark Lawrence.
From: Gregory Ewing on 1 Aug 2010 04:26 Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > How many .msi files would you have to click on to achieve the Windows > equivalent? Don't you just leave the machine on overnight and wait for Microsoft to download all the stuff they think you should be using? -- Greg
From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro on 1 Aug 2010 06:17 In message <8bkosiFpihU2(a)mid.individual.net>, Gregory Ewing wrote: > Don't you just leave the machine on overnight and wait > for Microsoft to download all the stuff they think > you should be using? That's fine, but it doesn't handle the non-Microsoft stuff.
From: Tim Harig on 1 Aug 2010 06:27
On 2010-08-01, Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > On 01/08/2010 06:17, Tim Harig wrote: >> On 2010-08-01, Lawrence D'Oliveiro<ldo(a)geek-central.gen.new_zealand> wrote: >>> In message<i2q3sk$3pf$1(a)speranza.aioe.org>, Tim Harig wrote: >>> >>>> It would be rewarding as it would make writing cross-platform charactor >>>> mode applications possible. >>> >>> I thought Windows users were allergic to command lines. >> >> To the best of my knowledge, there have never been any documentated >> cases of computer software related alleries. There are however several >> chemicals used in the process of constructing computer hardware componets >> which have been linked to allergy illnesses. Maybe Windows users are >> simply allergic to their computers. > > Windows users biggest allergy is to this strange world that involves > "make" on other boxes, whatever that is, it strikes me as rather > archaic. Personally I find double clicking on an msi file rather easier. I work with several thousand computers located on three different continents. Few of them have mice attached to them. If you think double clicking is a better method, be my guest; but, you need to get a package installed and configured on all of them before lunch. Its also kind of funny that I couldn't get the msi to work with a large percentage of the systems that I work with. Make works on all but one out of the box, and potentially on the last with the addition of SFU or Cygwin. With all that said, I am still not sure what the make/msi question has anything to do with packing a backup, cross platform, implementation of curses that allows the curses module to give Python a cross platform method of character mode manipulation. |