[Python-Dev] Goals for patch selection for 2.1.2

[David Ascher]

On Mon, 2001-10-22 at 13:10, Tim Peters wrote:
> [Aahz]
> > ...
> > (Back when I knew less about Unix than I do now, I was two weeks into a
> > new job, dealing with a customer who was complaining about being unable
> > to install the latest release of our software.  I tracked it down to a
> > syntax error in the install shell script -- proving that *NOBODY* from
> > QA had bothered to do an actual test install with the released CD.)
> 
> In my Cray Research days, releases were shipped on magnetic tape.  A day
> after one major release, customers started to report that the tapes they got
> were blank -- the tape unit write head was in fact utterly dead, but nobody
> had bothered to even trying reading the release media, let alone install
> from it.
> 
> PythonLabs has also shipped damaged tarballs.  The only thing we haven't
> done is ship an empty Windows installer <wink>.

Myself, I'll never admit anything in public. 

--david