+1 on all you said jim -- Lovely Systems, Partner phone: +43 5572 908060, fax: +43 5572 908060-77 Schmelzhütterstraße 26a, 6850 Dornbirn, Austria
-----Original Message----- From: Jim Fulton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 15:29:23 To: "Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc:catalog-sig@python.org Subject: Re: [Catalog-sig] The purpose(s) of PYPI On Jul 11, 2007, at 3:23 PM, Martin v. Löwis wrote: ... > As for taking needs into account: First of all, it's a volunteer > project. Open source contributors are known to primarily scratch > their own itches. Thank you for explaining open source to me. > So if you want to see needs be taken into account, > you may have to write the code yourself, pay somebody to write > it for your, or talk somebody into writing it for you. Yup. I'm aware of that. > In particular, > I personally won't write any line of code just because of a threat to > go away and write a competing index. First, I'm not aware that anyone has asked you do do anything. Second, I certainly meant no threat. We need a working index to use with setuptools. I would hope, in the spirit of open source to collaborate on that. A basic questions that needs to be answered is whether to use PyPI or to build something else. Jim -- Jim Fulton mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Python Powered! CTO (540) 361-1714 http://www.python.org Zope Corporation http://www.zope.com http://www.zope.org _______________________________________________ Catalog-SIG mailing list Catalog-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/catalog-sig _______________________________________________ Catalog-SIG mailing list Catalog-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/catalog-sig
