[Python-Dev] PEP 376 - Open questions

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Wed Jul 8 21:41:10 CEST 2009


>> Hehe very nice, thanks for the explanation :)
>>
>> (thanks to the others too)
> 
> I think is exchange actually a good reminder that the bar for acceptance
> of PEP 376 shouldn't be "Addresses every possible packaging issue we can
> come up with". That would be setting expectations far too high because
> packaging cross-platform is so messy.

OTOH, it *is* expected that the PEP explicitly lists aspects that it
didn't resolve, so that any reader can find out whether something was
discussed and rejected, or not discussed.

Regards,
Martin




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