On Jul 29, 2013, at 1:01 PM, Tres Seaver <tsea...@palladion.com> wrote:
> Signed PGP part > On 07/29/2013 10:51 AM, Donald Stufft wrote: > > I've personally gotten or seen more complaints over the naming of a > > variable in the config file then I have over any changes we've made. > > The runner up to that is the fallout from switching to requiring > > verified SSL. > > The past few months have generated a *lot* of teeth-gnashing / > hair-pulling, especially among "downstream" developers (those unlikely to > be reading this SIG): > > - - HTTPS-only PyPY I've seen very few people complain about this. It's probably the largest issue in either of the projects I'm involved with. > > > - - Distribute / setuptools merge, e.g. cratering folks who use a > distro-managed 'python-distribute' package. This is the biggest issue. I wasn't involved and it could have been handled better sure. > > > - - Pip's new backward-imcompatible "final releases by default". Again this negatively affects very few packages and it positively affects a number of people who were bit by the fact that pip does this. SQLAlchemy was one of the ones that were offhand. People don't realize the tools *didn't* do this and often times caused pain inadvertently for the down stream developers. > > > I think we are going to be in a much better place for all that, but let's > not deny the pain involved for *everybody* in getting there. > > > Tres. > - -- > =================================================================== > Tres Seaver +1 540-429-0999 tsea...@palladion.com > Palladion Software "Excellence by Design" http://palladion.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig ----------------- Donald Stufft PGP: 0x6E3CBCE93372DCFA // 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 DCFA
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