yet another "Here's to 1.5.2" post

[Joshua Macy]

Greg Weeks wrote:

> Now, if only the energy that was put into adding the above blemishes had
> been placed into making Python more robustly installable.  On my system
> (HP-UX 10.2) with my reasonable efforts at building a system:
> 
>     in 1.5.2, there is no FCNTL module
> 
>     in 2.2, "configure" fails due to erroneous C pre-processor code
> 
>     in 2.2, "make test" fails for reasons I haven't had the time to pin down
> 

   Instead of volunteering other people's time and energy, maybe you 
should contribute some of your own.  If fixing "make test" and 
"configure" on your HP-UX system isn't high enough priority for *you* 
who actually uses it, why should anyone else leap to do your bidding? 
Particularly when you don't even seem to be thankful for the software 
that's already been donated to you by their efforts....

   Joshua