Windows Dedicated Mailing List
Hello I have been following the lists for a while, and have noticed that there do not seem to be any sort of specifics for Windows. Now, as someone developing python applications (and hoping to develop python itself on Windows), I think it may be prudent to consider adding a Windows specific mailing list regarding development on Windows, whether it is development of Python on windows, or developing Python applications on Windows. Please let me know what you guys think - if there is consensus, it would be great to get it up and running, and I would be more than willing to take steps from my side as required. Thanks SbSpider
On 14/11/2014 08:34, Shorya Raj wrote:
Hello I have been following the lists for a while, and have noticed that there do not seem to be any sort of specifics for Windows. Now, as someone developing python applications (and hoping to develop python itself on Windows), I think it may be prudent to consider adding a Windows specific mailing list regarding development on Windows, whether it is development of Python on windows, or developing Python applications on Windows. Please let me know what you guys think - if there is consensus, it would be great to get it up and running, and I would be more than willing to take steps from my side as required.
That would be this: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32 TJG
I'd like to keep development *of* Python here, regardless of platform. Otherwise all the Linux and Mac people might forget about us :) Top-posted from my Windows Phone ________________________________ From: Tim Golden<mailto:mail@timgolden.me.uk> Sent: 11/14/2014 7:11 To: Shorya Raj<mailto:rajshorya@gmail.com>; Python Dev<mailto:Python-Dev@python.org> Subject: Re: [Python-Dev] Windows Dedicated Mailing List On 14/11/2014 08:34, Shorya Raj wrote:
Hello I have been following the lists for a while, and have noticed that there do not seem to be any sort of specifics for Windows. Now, as someone developing python applications (and hoping to develop python itself on Windows), I think it may be prudent to consider adding a Windows specific mailing list regarding development on Windows, whether it is development of Python on windows, or developing Python applications on Windows. Please let me know what you guys think - if there is consensus, it would be great to get it up and running, and I would be more than willing to take steps from my side as required.
That would be this: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32 TJG _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/steve.dower%40microsoft.c...
On Fri, 14 Nov 2014 16:35:12 +0000 Steve Dower <Steve.Dower@microsoft.com> wrote:
I'd like to keep development *of* Python here, regardless of platform. Otherwise all the Linux and Mac people might forget about us :)
+1 from a Linux developer. I find it useful to know what happens on other platforms (also I occasionally fire a Windows VM to do some development). Regards Antoine.
I agree completely (although I use multibooting instead of a VM). On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 11:46 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> wrote:
On Fri, 14 Nov 2014 16:35:12 +0000 Steve Dower <Steve.Dower@microsoft.com> wrote:
I'd like to keep development *of* Python here, regardless of platform. Otherwise all the Linux and Mac people might forget about us :)
+1 from a Linux developer. I find it useful to know what happens on other platforms (also I occasionally fire a Windows VM to do some development).
Regards
Antoine.
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Shorya Raj writes:
I think it may be prudent to consider adding a Windows specific mailing list regarding development on Windows,
One possibly-relevant anecdote. We had such a list for XEmacs, where the biggest contributor 1998-2005 was Windows-based. *He* preferred communicating via the main developers' list (the reasons given by others in this thread were among his reasons), and the "xemacs-winnt" list devolved into a forum for teaching newbies how to escape spaces in filenames, and the occasional flame from a Windows-oriented user who wanted XEmacs to change into a "modern GUI application" (like, say, Word, except for writing programs). It died a natural death (long before XEmacs development went dormant). N.B. The problem with modern GUI, of course, was that all the Windows- based developers who contributed any code to speak of liked the mouse- free pinky-welded-to-the-control-key UI (that's *why* they used Emacsen). This might not be such a stark contrast in Python, which doesn't pretend to be a UI. On the other hand, the Windows-oriented Python developers (several of whom are currently inactive for reasons unrelated to their preferred platform) have never seemed uncomfortable here.
Fair enough. Like I said, I wanted to see what the consensus was, and it seems to be shifting towards not making another list. On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 6:36 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen@xemacs.org> wrote:
Shorya Raj writes:
I think it may be prudent to consider adding a Windows specific mailing list regarding development on Windows,
One possibly-relevant anecdote. We had such a list for XEmacs, where the biggest contributor 1998-2005 was Windows-based. *He* preferred communicating via the main developers' list (the reasons given by others in this thread were among his reasons), and the "xemacs-winnt" list devolved into a forum for teaching newbies how to escape spaces in filenames, and the occasional flame from a Windows-oriented user who wanted XEmacs to change into a "modern GUI application" (like, say, Word, except for writing programs). It died a natural death (long before XEmacs development went dormant).
N.B. The problem with modern GUI, of course, was that all the Windows- based developers who contributed any code to speak of liked the mouse- free pinky-welded-to-the-control-key UI (that's *why* they used Emacsen). This might not be such a stark contrast in Python, which doesn't pretend to be a UI.
On the other hand, the Windows-oriented Python developers (several of whom are currently inactive for reasons unrelated to their preferred platform) have never seemed uncomfortable here.
On 11/15/2014 3:01 AM, Shorya Raj wrote:
Fair enough. Like I said, I wanted to see what the consensus was, and it seems to be shifting towards not making another list.
Agreed. The traffic here is not high enough to need a split. Most OS specific issues that need a patch end up as a specific issue on the tracker with a limited subset of us as nosy. -- Terry Jan Reedy
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