[stdlib-sig] Breaking out the stdlib

[Michael Foord]

Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> Le mardi 15 septembre 2009 à 17:14 -0400, R. David Murray a écrit :
>   
>> Actually I believe I heard from someone other than Laura that required
>> options were explicitly rejected.
>>     
>
> This is one of the reasons why I'm against exclusive module ownership.
> If a reasonable number of people think a feature would benefit the
> community, the module owner shouldn't be able to veto it on ideological
> (or whatever other personal) grounds.
>
>   

I dislike exclusive module ownership too. We end up in situations where 
modules (like ElementTree) are 'owned' by someone who is absent and 
no-one else is able to (or dares to) touch the code.

Michael

> In any case, this is not directly an argument against optparse itself,
> if someone (Armin?) decides to maintain it with a more open attitude.
>
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