On Dec 26, 2009, at 4:17 PM, Stephen Waterbury wrote: > sstein...@gmail.com wrote: >> I think that splitting > package storage and pointers to >> off-repository storage (for those who don't upload to PyPI) >> > metadata about the stored packages >> > tools for creating stored packages >> > tools for retrieving stored packages >> > tools for installing packages >> would go a long way towards unobfuscating this whole discussion. >> Yes, I'm sure someone will disagree with some fine-point of that >> division but isn't that what woodshedding is all about? > > OT (diction): > Hmm ... I think you meant "bikeshedding" (energetic discussion of > meaningless details) -- "woodshedding" *is* an actual slang term, but > one that originated among musicians, meaning "to practice one's skills > alone" (i.e., to go off to a woodshed where no one can hear you).
I know that, I'm a musician, too..it was kind of a play on the fact that simple bikeshedding seems to turn into woodshedding i.e. it goes beyond the normal bikeshedding and becomes beating a dead bikeshed... I couldn't come up with a conjoined word fast enough so I just let it go as I wrote it. S _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
