[Python-Dev] Update to Python Documentation Website Request

[David Lyon]

On Sat, 25 Jul 2009 11:25:27 +1000, Ben Finney <ben+python at benfinney.id.au>
> You omit the important part: adding a new thing to Python *so long as it
> doesn't depend on anything outside Python*.

I'm signing out on this silly discussion for now....

Any python program is dependant on things "outside" python. For
example an operating system.. a computer... and a user perhaps
for without such it wouldn't be possible to generate the all important
1Di0t errors that we so often have to deal with.

>> The Python Package Manager can be written to work in console mode.
> 
> I think this would be best. 

Haha - I'm glad somebody took this seriously... It was a sort of a joke 
comment but it's a serious possibility.

> The functionality you often discuss around
> this tool would be best implemented independently of any UI. 

It is anyway. That's why doing an entirely different UI isn't any
major issue. I have a class and a possible command line interface
behind the scenes.

> It would, in fact, be best to work with the team performing ongoing 
> active standardisation of distutils functionality.

I am already doing that.

But there is a bias against windows development and a bias
against native applications. That's fine because I know they
are using python on different platforms.

I'm working on a proposal to make setup.py object oriented
and  "modern".

http://wiki.python.org/moin/Distutils/Proposals

So I'm doing as much as I can - really.

David