On Tue, 2009-11-17 at 10:47 +0100, Roberto Cavada wrote: > Greg Ewing wrote: > > > What is the general feeling out there? > > > About the announcements policy, I wonder what is the difference with > other projects which use or extend pygtk. I suspect the difference > is that pygui is perceived like a potential competitor of pygtk, so > announcements about it are told to be not welcomed (especially if > you also state that pygtk sucks :) > > If my feeling is correct, then I cannot go along with the policy of > not allowing announcements of such projects - simply because it is > not clear to me where the line separating pygtk users and pygtk > competitors can be collocated. > > Furthermore, I do think that competitors should be welcomed as they > may contribute to improve the quality of pygtk itself. > > Finally, let me say that if you think pygtk could be improved (to > put it in polite terms), you have to justify your statement, or else > they have no meaning at all. Notice that a true analysis may give a > sense to your project as well.
I agree with everything you have said here. I do not mind the announcements, I think this fracas came about because of a rather unfortunate slip of the tongue by Greg. John _______________________________________________ pygtk mailing list pygtk@daa.com.au http://www.daa.com.au/mailman/listinfo/pygtk Read the PyGTK FAQ: http://faq.pygtk.org/
