[Grok-dev] Grok 1.1 important issues

[Martijn Faassen]

Hey there,

Steve Schmechel wrote:
> I forgot about downloading and unpacking the tarball.
> 
> Is it possible that, with all the "dependency trimming" 
> going on with Grok, the need for the tarball might begin 
> to diminish also?  (In other words, all GTK and ZTK packages 
> are properly deployed on PyPI and download times not 
> significantly longer that with the tarball.)

Yes, perhaps, but we won't see these results yet in Grok 1.1; we'll only 
end up with *more* dependencies for now during the transition.

I think the reason we have a "bundled" installer will continue to exist. 
I think we should however question whether the current approach makes 
sense - see the installer discussions.

Regards,

Martijn