[Python-Dev] Attention Bazaar mirror users

[David Cournapeau]

On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 9:15 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen at xemacs.org> wrote:
> "Martin v. Löwis" writes:
>  > sjt sez:
>
>  > > I didn't say "from source", I said "from a VCS checkout".  If using a
>  > > *specific* recent official release of a core tool is bureaucratically
>  > > infeasible, it would IMO be very unusual if you're allowed to checkout
>  > > and build arbitrary versions of Python, rather than using a version
>  > > provided by your bureaucrats.
>  > >
>  > > The number of people whose job is *specifically* developing Python, or
>  > > developing code that depends on bleeding-edge Python, in such an
>  > > environment is surely very small.
>
>  > This completely contradicts with my experience. In a university
>  > environment, students regularly check out software from the source
>  > repository, modify it, and build it, just to learn something by doing
>  > so.
>
> You're ignoring the second paragraph quoted above.  I'm *not* denying
> that such environments are common.  The question is "Do developers
> *restricted to such environments* really have an impact on Python
> development to outweigh the real cost of standardizing on an older
> implementation of Bazaar to developers who would be able to use a more
> capable version?"

That was not the original question. I was just meaning to say that not
being able to install from PPA is not hypothetical, in some of my work
environments, not that it would be significant for the python future
:)

David