On 05/10/2016 09:38 AM, Alex Grönholm wrote:
10.05.2016, 19:35, Ethan Furman kirjoitti:
It's too complicated and error-prone. If we want buy-in from casual packagers then our configuration language needs to be simple to understand and simple to get right. (The amount of leading whitespace on a single line changes your data type? Really?? 0644 and 0x644 both map to 420? and 644 maps to 644?)
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Do you actually expect to use these in your project's configuration?
I might. A couple in-house projects have scripts that only root should run.
No?
Don't assume for me, and don't assume for the hundreds (thousands? tens of thousands?) of others who will be using this.
Then why is this a problem for you in this case?
See above. -- ~Ethan~ _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
