Nick Coghlan schrieb:
Martin v. Löwis wrote:
Nick Coghlan wrote:
Ben Finney wrote:
anatoly techtonik <techtonik@gmail.com> writes:
Quite an interesting question recently popped up in pygame community that I'd like to ask to Python developers. This forum is specifically about development *of* Python. Anatoly's question is actually a fair one for python-dev - we're the ones that *ship* Idle, so it is legitimate to ask our reasons for continuing to do so.
But he didn't - instead, he asked how many of us use it. Usage by committers is not (or shouldn't be) a primary criterion for including or not including something. Instead, usage in the community should be, and python-dev is indeed the wrong place to estimate that.
I took it as being a somewhat relevant leading question. If the response had been "No, none of us use it" then the obvious follow-up question would be "Why do you ship something that you don't consider worth using?".
Quite simple: because we can't possibly ship Emacs. cheers, Georg