10 Dec
1998
10 Dec
'98
7:53 p.m.
Greg Stein writes:
People will use whatever practices they want. Many people do not have software engineering degrees (heck, many don't even have degrees!). If you organize distutils such that you require a change on their part, they'll simply ignore distutils. Back to .tar.gz files.
I don't think .tar.gz went anywhere. Are we supposed to be doing a new archive format as well? I don't see any point.
I believe that you cannot attempt to enforce much policy on the coders. Some, sure. But pick your fights.
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