On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 11:16 AM, David Lyon
On Tue, 13 Oct 2009 10:36:12 +0200, Tarek Ziadé
wrote: Why are you doing a similar PEP, what's the point ? You've already helped a bit.
Tarek,
I championed the use of static metadata on the distutils mailing list before you picked it up. Don't you remember?
Frankly, I don't. The first time we've mentioned static metadata was at Pycon last year. The first one who mentioned the idea was Eric IIRC, then Matthias and Tres worked on it. But who cares ? I am not claiming any ownership on ideas. I am not tracking either who threw which idea. But if someone cares, speak up : I'll detail who participated in the Acknowledgment section. I just happen to be the one maintaining PEP 390 and I am trying to collect ideas here because I am maintaining Distutils so I'll be the one who will apply the changes there.
The reason that I am doing an alternate PEP is because it contains improvements that would be very useful on windows and linux.
A fair and open development process should mean that people are able to freely contribute their ideas and have them evaluated on the merits of the idea.
That's exactly how PEP 390 was built. The process is far from being perfect though, maybe some ideas didn't make it through. But that's how it goes.
I suggest that you help us finishing in the existing PEP 390 instead, by proposing changes.
If I see things I can help with, then I'm happy to do that...
Great then, I am looking forward for its improvements. Tarek