On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 3:46 PM, David Lyon <david.l...@preisshare.net> wrote: [..] > >> .. it means that we can take >> more help from more people (and that includes you of course). > > I really do accept that. > > What's hard for me to understand exactly is what you will actually allow > me to do.
Gosh. I am not your boss, and I am not telling you what to do. This is open source, but this is also a community... You can't just come around and ignore some parts of what is being done. I am just telling you that if you want to help in the static metadata field, and if your goal is to help *Distutils* improve, you have to work with what has been started! [..] >> You have started some kind of "counter-PEP" to push another build >> system, and I really doubt this is useful in any ways. > > You shouldn't take it personally that another person tried to submit > a PEP. So many people helped me with my proposal on the mailing > list - and I owe it to them to at least get their efforts taken > into consideration as a PEP. > > In any case, if you feel strongly about this then I can revise > my proposal so that it doesn't look like a proposal for a build > system (it was for a metadata setup - not a build system). [..] > The implication there is you don't want me to submit PEPs because > they somehow counter your work. Well if that's the case I can > be more careful in the future. There's plenty of things > that I can write PEPs for now... Neither Guido, neither Brett neither I are taking this personally. But at some point, if your goal is to help improving Distutils, you have to work with what has been started. > A metadata install was just the first.. > > And to my knowledge, there still isn't a PEP about that. Right? If you work on a PEP that is related to any PEP started in the same area, I will strongly oppose against adding your PEP because it is a non-sense. Take and read the existing PEPs and help us improving them. We don't add new PEPs for the heck of it. If it's a credit issue, your name will be added in any PEP you will provide a valuable help on. Tarek _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig