On Sat, Feb 1, 2014, at 12:40 PM, Vinay Sajip wrote:
On Sat, 1/2/14, Donald Stufft <donald@stufft.io> wrote:
I never said anything gets magically better on GitHub, I told you the reason why *I* haven’t bothered to try it.
And I'm OK with that.
Distlib is a significantly different case, it’s a library that is going to be directly useful for a very small population of people. The vast majority of people do not have any need or desire to directly work with distlib.
And your point is? This is distutils-sig, not python-list: it's the only reasonable place to try and solicit feedback for something like distlib. I'm not *complaining* that I haven't had much feedback - just stating it. To state the bleedin' obvious, I don't expect to have any say in how other people spend their time, and I hope I didn't give any contrary expectation.
I can guarantee you that if distlib wasn’t released under an OSS license that pip wouldn’t have used it
Sure, but I assume it wasn't used *just* because of the license. It has to be useful in some way too.
Sure, a useless tool/experiment is not made useful by a reasonable license, but a useful tool/experiment can be made useless by an unreasonable license. distil isn't licensed so that I can even legally *use* it as far as I understand the law.
Regards,
Vinay Sajip