distutils-sig/python-dev crosstalk
Most recent threads on distutils-sig seem to have migrated to python-dev pretty quickly. This means that a) there are python-dev people on distutils-sig (duh), b) they think what goes on there is important enough to interest the other core developers (good!), and c) they assume there are people on python-dev who are not also on distutils-sig. Is this last assumption true? If you read python-dev, are interested in distutils issues, but do *not* read distutils-sig, please drop me a note. If no one says anything, I will (politely, tentatively) propose that we keep the distutils threads on distutils-sig and leave python-dev for, well, core Pythond development. If you think that the two are inextricably linked and I might as well just cross-post everything on distutils-sig to python-dev, let me know about that too. ;-) Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer gward@cnri.reston.va.us Corporation for National Research Initiatives 1895 Preston White Drive voice: +1-703-620-8990 Reston, Virginia, USA 20191-5434 fax: +1-703-620-0913
On Thu, 16 Dec 1999, Greg Ward wrote:
... If you think that the two are inextricably linked and I might as well just cross-post everything on distutils-sig to python-dev, let me know about that too. ;-)
:-) I think distutils is about the mechanics. And it is a large and sophisticated problem (which why it has a SIG :-). You could almost view it as a spinoff of the python-dev grand problem set. When we get into the question of "what does Python ship with?", then I think it belongs in python-dev, as that is a discussion of what constitutes Python itself. Cheers, -g -- Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
On Thu, 16 Dec 1999, Greg Ward wrote:
Most recent threads on distutils-sig seem to have migrated to python-dev pretty quickly. This means that a) there are python-dev people on distutils-sig (duh), b) they think what goes on there is important enough to interest the other core developers (good!), and c) they assume there are people on python-dev who are not also on distutils-sig.
Oh. One more thing. Actually, what I am somewhat worried about is whether there was relevant discussion on python-dev that should have been visible to the distutils people. Not sure if there was, but that is always a potential problem. Same with the recent xml-sig / python-dev crosstalk. Specifically, Paul Prescod is not on python-dev, so he may have missed a response or two. Cheers, -g -- Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
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