On Apr 23, 2009, at 5:21 AM, Lisandro Dalcin wrote: > On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 3:58 AM, Robert Bradshaw > <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Apr 22, 2009, at 10:16 PM, Stefan Behnel wrote: >> >> >> I like the default to be one with the repo. Is it really painful for >> users to download the extra couple MB, or is it the principle of the >> thing? >> > > Cython is small, so the extra couple MB is not really a big issue, > though my internet connection at work is really slow ;-(. But as Greg > commented, this is unpolite.
That is a matter of opinion--in my book anything that a community does to remove barriers to contribution is a mark on the "more polite" side. It's provided as a convenience, not because we think users couldn't cope otherwise. Most people probably won't even notice it's there until they go to edit the source. > If all projects out there did the same, > even you will complain (think of core CPython doing this). For > example, I'm involved in developing PETSc. The latest release tarball > weights 14MB; if we add the .hg directectory, that would add 85MB; and > many PETSc users are also developers... Only if it got in the way, e.g. 85MB would. Let's revisit when when the potential savings hit 10MB. - Robert _______________________________________________ Cython-dev mailing list [email protected] http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/cython-dev
