[getopt-sig] The bake-off

[Greg Ward]

On 30 May 2002, holger@trillke.net said:
> i came in late to the SIG but it appears that in the last two or three
> month discussion was non-existent. The original SIG-people seem
> to agree on Optik so i respectfully stay out of their way.

If you are referring to your proposal of 9 April in this post:

  http://mail.python.org/pipermail/getopt-sig/2002-April/000121.html

then here's my belated reaction: too clever and too implicit.  I like
the fact that Python enables code inspection, but I think relying on it
for everyday work like option-parsing is just wrong.  If you really,
really want to promote your proposal, then 1) how about an
implementation, and 2) supply an entry for the bake-off at
                
  http://www.python.org/sigs/getopt-sig/compare.html

I'm pretty sure that I'll still prefer Optik, though.

> It's just a bit frustrating to see that the 'inner pythoneer circles' 
> tend to ignore people willing to contribute :-(

You did sort of miss the main discussion in February.  Lots of ideas,
both good and bad, were kicked around.  I didn't recognize anyone from
the "inner pythoneer circles", except Tim Peters who as usual clarified
things enormously in a few short sentences.  Many of the good ideas made
it into Optik 1.3.  I'm satisfied with the process, but then I would be,
wouldn't I?  ;-)

        Greg
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