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On Jul 29, 2013, at 1:01 PM, Tres Seaver <tseaver@palladion.com> wrote:
Signed PGP part On 07/29/2013 10:51 AM, Donald Stufft wrote:
I've personally gotten or seen more complaints over the naming of a variable in the config file then I have over any changes we've made. The runner up to that is the fallout from switching to requiring verified SSL.
The past few months have generated a *lot* of teeth-gnashing / hair-pulling, especially among "downstream" developers (those unlikely to be reading this SIG):
- - HTTPS-only PyPY
I've seen very few people complain about this. It's probably the largest issue in either of the projects I'm involved with.
- - Distribute / setuptools merge, e.g. cratering folks who use a distro-managed 'python-distribute' package.
This is the biggest issue. I wasn't involved and it could have been handled better sure.
- - Pip's new backward-imcompatible "final releases by default".
Again this negatively affects very few packages and it positively affects a number of people who were bit by the fact that pip does this. SQLAlchemy was one of the ones that were offhand. People don't realize the tools *didn't* do this and often times caused pain inadvertently for the down stream developers.
I think we are going to be in a much better place for all that, but let's not deny the pain involved for *everybody* in getting there.
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