On 17 October 2013 11:56, Donald Stufft <don...@stufft.io> wrote: > Arguably it's already broken. I've had to explain to a number of people > that it won't cause their dependencies to install. I think its way more > user friendly to tell them up front then to confuse them when it doesn't > work or when it appears to work but they get an error from a - > > You're proposing replacing "arguably broken" (by some definition) with "actually broken" (no longer works). That's not an acceptable trade-off.
> Packaging is confusing enough without leaving foot guns littered through > it. > > Packaging is confusing enough without breaking people's stuff! (Replacing a foot gun with actually shooting people's feet off if we're going to stick with the metaphor...) Michael > > On Oct 17, 2013, at 6:04 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Don't break things when they don't pose an immediate security threat > (and sometimes not even then) :) > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig > -- http://www.voidspace.org.uk/ May you do good and not evil May you find forgiveness for yourself and forgive others May you share freely, never taking more than you give. -- the sqlite blessing http://www.sqlite.org/different.html
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