8 Jul 2002 08:03
Re: What can I do?
Sean Reifschneider <jafo <at> tummy.com>
2002-07-08 06:03:35 GMT
2002-07-08 06:03:35 GMT
>I'd really like to see PEP 243 come to something. What can I do to make it >happen? I can offer my programming time, and a test server. I can also Unfortunately, there IS no technological solution to this problem. We have programming talent, in fact my "swalow" code was a working system, I have a server here which we can run swalow or Ciphon's code on -- Suchandra even has a login on it and an FTP directory to play around in. The problem is one of gaining critical mass. There are a few reasons for this, I think. AMK seemed to indicate he lost interest in the catalog efforts because Debian has packages for all the stuff he needs. I was also having trouble finding someone in the Debian camp to get interested in making Distutils inter-operate with Debian packages -- the opinion I've gotten was that unless a Debian package came from a human maintainer, Debian folks didn't want it around. I thought that making a distutils command-line switch which automatically uploaded packages to the repository would help gain that critical mass. It never made it into the Distutils base-line. There's been some recent discussion of putting it in place, but I haven't had the time to get back in to Distutils to make it happen. I think it boils down to this: What we have is "good enough". The standard Python library is pretty rich, and many distributions include the more important packages. So, the need for having it isn't a "pressing issue". Most of the good stuff is readily available. > 1. module namespace. PAUSE has facility for authors to register namespaces to >avoid clashes.(Continue reading)
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