Python evolution: Unease

[Paul Rubin]

Ville Vainio <ville at spammers.com> writes:
> To me, this seems to be the job for the Fedora maintainers, not Python
> maintainers. If something essential is not in the distro the distro
> maintainers have screwed up.

I can't parse that.  It says two contradictory things.  Sentence 2
says that if something essential is not in the (Python) distro then
the (Python) distro maintainers have screwed up.  Sentence 1 says
it's the Fedora maintainer's job to deal with it.  Huh?

>     Paul> The book is very good, but having to go buy a proprietary
>     Paul> book is the opposite of what self-contained free software
>     Paul> documentation is supposed to mean.
> 
> I'm not sure the free software documentation is going to evolve to be
> more self-contained; the exact opposite is more likely.

With software, I don't think you're right.  With documentation, I
don't have a sense of whether you're right or not, but I hope you
aren't right.