[Python-Dev] Internationalization Toolkit
M.-A. Lemburg
mal@lemburg.com
Fri, 12 Nov 1999 10:00:47 +0100
Andy Robinson wrote:
>
> --- Gordon McMillan <gmcm@hypernet.com> wrote:
> > [per-thread defaults]
> >
> > C'mon guys, hasn't anyone ever played consultant
> > before? The
> > idea is obviously brain-dead. OTOH, they asked for
> > it
> > specifically, meaning they have some assumptions
> > about how
> > they think they're going to use it. If you give them
> > what they
> > ask for, you'll only have to fix it when they
> > realize there are
> > other ways of doing things that don't work with
> > per-thread
> > defaults. So, you find out why they think it's a
> > good thing; you
> > make it easy for them to code this way (without
> > actually using
> > per-thread defaults) and you don't make a fuss about
> > it. More
> > than likely, they won't either.
> >
>
> I wrote directly to ask them exactly this last night.
> Let's forget the per-thread thing until we get an
> answer.
That's the way to go, Andy.
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Marc-Andre Lemburg
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