[Catalog-sig] New proposal, with PEP

[Martin v. Loewis]

Richard Jones <rjones@ekit-inc.com> writes:

> I've now posted three messages on the subject of my online catalog effort - 
> four if you count the message I sent to the distutils sig. None of those 
> posts have generated any feedback to me. Not even "piss off, you're wasting 
> our precious time". That's a bit damn disheartening. 

I think this is the problem. If you get disheartened easily, expect to
give up sooner or later, like everybody else before you.

Every time somebody comes along and offers some kind of catalog, I ask
whether they actually want to operate it, or whether they only want to
write the software - or perhaps even just define a spec.

I'm not interested in specs, and I'm only mildly interested in
software. What I want to see is the catalog in operation.

> People have looked at and used the prototype though, so I suppose at
> least the posts weren't ignored. I'm persisting regardless, because
> I believe I've got a good idea, and I have friends who also believe
> I'm on to a good thing too. I also know there's a history of little
> support for these projects.

I think you are misinterpreting history. People used to get quite
involved in discussing specs; these days, they might be tired because
of fear that the project won't progress beyond the spec phase.

As for contributions to the software: Most software was good enough
when released initially.

As for actually using the infrastructure: That was typically
impossible because of the lack of infrastructure to use.

What other support would you expect?

Regards,
Martin