On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 4:27 PM, Antoine Pitrou
<solipsis@pitrou.net> wrote:
On Sat, 27 Aug 2011 16:19:01 -0700
> 2) It's a rather arbitrary distinction that's being drawn between dev and
> nondev today. There's no particular reason why the line couldn't be drawn
> somewhere else.
Sure. Now please convince Linux distributions first, because this
particular subthread is going nowhere.
Interesting. You seem to want to throw an arbitrary barrier between Python, the language, and accomplishing something important for said language.
Care to tell me why I'm wrong? I'm all ears.
I'll note that you've deleted:
> 1) We could easily work with the dev / nondev distinction by
> taking a
dependency on the -dev version of whatever we need,
> instead of the
nondev version.
...which makes it more than apparent that we needn't convince Linux distributors of #2, which you seem to prefer to focus on.
Why was it in your best interest to delete #1, without even commenting on it?