[Python-Dev] Why did Fredrik leave the party?

[Tim Peters]

[Guido]
> ...
> Let me counter with some more statistics.  The FixedPont module is
> available from SourceForge.  It doesn't look like it's wildly popular
> though: it has been downloaded 236 times since the first release last
> August.  Some more statistics (that I swear I am not making up):
> during the life of this project (since last August) a total of 3 bugs
> were reported, zero patches, and one feature request.

The audience for decimal arithmetic isn't capable of implementing it, so the
lack of patches is no surprise.  The lack of bugs and feature requests is
largely explained by that I originally wrote it <wink>.  Meaning that it set
itself a well-defined task, and did the best possible numeric job within
that design from its first release.  There were never any bugs, although
rounding behavior is something different apps need to do in different ways,
and Doug Fort addressed that without going thru the SF bug/patch machinery.

> I'll leave it to Tim to explain why he doesn't think this module
> should be added to the standard library.  If he thinks it belongs
> there, I certainly won't argue against it!

I suggested adding it months ago, and you approved the idea then, provided
that I didn't do the work.  That's been communicated on python-dev and
c.l.py multiple times, but, so far, nobody has bit.