[Python-Dev] public visibility of python-dev decisions "before it's too late"

[James Y Knight]

On Mar 15, 2011, at 10:14 PM, Lennart Regebro wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 21:54, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
>> I don't know what other core devs, but I don't think this discussion is
>> going anywhere. If porting the ZTK is a burden for you, perhaps you
>> should try to find some financial support for it (or let other people
>> do it for you), rather than accusing the python-dev community.
> 
> Up until the reactions from the core Python developers on these real
> world problems, it was hard work, but also fun. It isn't anymore, and
> I hear your message, loud and clear, so indeed, somebody else will
> have to do it. I've lost interest.

It seems a bit odd for you to be so surprised about this, considering Python3 is a *huge* compatibility break that broke basically every single thing ever written in Python.

And I'm not sure why you're making such a big deal about this one corner of incompatibility -- PyCObject vs. PyCapsule seems like such a trivial and easy to work around issue compared to the massive pain-in-the-ass porting job for all the incompatibilities on the Python-language side of the fence.

James