[Python-Dev] Integrating the PEP 397 launcher

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 7:50 AM, Brian Curtin <brian at python.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 17:45, Benjamin Peterson <benjamin at python.org> wrote:
>> 2012/3/29 Brian Curtin <brian at python.org>:
>>> After talking with Martin and several others during the language
>>> summit and elsewhere around PyCon, PEP 397 should be accepted. I don't
>>> remember who, but some suggested it should just be a regular old
>>> feature instead of going through the PEP process. So...does this even
>>> need to continue the PEP process?
>>
>> If you have a PEP and it's accepted, what would be the difference?
>
> In the end? Nothing. It was a comment about this whole process not
> even needing to exist.

Hindsight, as usual, is 20-20.  If the process got enough discussion
that somebody said, "look, this really needs a PEP," it's worth the
effort to record it.