On Sun, Feb 11, 2018 at 7:53 AM, Alex Walters <tritium-l...@sdamon.com> wrote: > Just out of curiosity, I did a little experiment. I explained this thread > to my mother. My mother is a wonderful woman, but she wouldn't know a byte > from a bite. I explained it as follows: > > "There is a tool that can make software run on a lot of different computers, > but only if you build it for an ancient computer. The tool is a little > complicated - you have to learn how to get it and to use it with any > success. The people who make it are considering changing the way they name > it. The new naming scheme is the bare minimum year the computer running the > code can be from.
I think the problem is that the whole discussion turns on whether we should care about the fact that it's more complicated than the last sentence would suggest. Cheers, Matthew _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
