Linked by Jussi Pakkanen on Tue 17th Apr 2007 18:20 UTC
Let me begin by telling you a little story. Some time ago I needed to run a script at work once a day. We had tons of machines ranging from big Unix servers to Linux desktops. Due to various reasons the script could only be run on a desktop machine. However using cron was disabled on desktops. All other machines allowed cron.
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This is part of the reason why people are migrating en mass to languages like Ruby and Python.
Most python apps come with configure scripts/makefile to make sure that all required optional 3rd party modules are available and to precompile everything to .pyc anyway.