On 9/27/11 8:51 AM, Tarek Ziadé wrote:
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 2:39 PM, Wichert Akkerman<[email protected]> wrote:
..
I understand where you're coming from but, ..
I think it's saner to rely on proven technology
than to invent our own protocol. NIH?
This also feels like a problem that has already been solved in various ways
by Debian, RedHat, CPAN and others.
Yes, and we've found a way similar to CPAN, with some Python specifics
(PyPI download statistics mainly)
Oh my, we're cycling again.
Nothing personal to you or Jim, but I have a sudden fatigue on
packaging because it seems like people are ignoring what's being done
to complain afterwards about us suffering of some kind of NIH :)
If you're seeing anything you don't like in PEP 381 (accepted a while
ago), go ahead and propose some improvements.
But please keep in mind that we've looked at other systems before we
wrote that PEP.
+1 If someone (Tarek in this case) wants to take the lead on this then I
don't care where the fix was invented ;-)
Obviously the less we make volunteers do, and the more we can outsource
the better (I say this in Plone-land repeatedly) but sometimes
inventing-something-here is the right thing to do. And it certainly
would not preclude other (cloud) fixes AFAICT.
Alex
Cheers
Tarek
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