[Python-Dev] External Package Maintenance

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 03:42 PM 6/12/2006 -0400, Edward C. Jones wrote:
>Guido van Rossum wrote:
>  > developers contributing code without wanting
>  > to give up control are the problem.
>
>That hits the nail on the head.

Actually it's both irrelevant and insulting.

I just want changes made by the Python core developers to be reflected in 
the external releases.  I'd be more than happy to move the external release 
to the Python SVN server if that would make it happen.

If there was only one release point for the package, I would've had no 
problem with any of the changes made by Tim or AMK or anybody else.  The 
"control" argument is a total red herring.  If I had an issue with the 
actual changes themselves, I'd address it on checkins or dev, as is normal!

The "nail" here is simply that maintaining two versions of a package is 
awkward if changes are being made in both places.  I'd love to have only 
one place in which wsgiref is maintained, but Python's current directory 
layout doesn't allow me to put all of wsgiref in "one place".

And if we hit *that* "nail" on the head (instead of hitting the external 
authors on theirs), it is a win for all the external contributors.