On 2/26/21 13:49, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
Hi Coyot, and welcome!
Can you explain the circumstances where a developer, or an end user,
might be confused as to which development mode is meant?
"Dev mode" is a very common term: Windows 10 has a development mode. So
does the X-Box and the Samsung Galaxy phone. Ruby on Rails also has a
development mode. So does the Opera web browser. I'm sure that with a
bit of googling, we could come up with a dozen more examples.
Normally, the context is all we need to disambiguate the different dev
modes, and if not, we can disambiguate the two by using fully qualified
names: "Galaxy dev mode" and "X-Box dev mode".
Under what circumstances is that not sufficient for Python dev mode and
setuptools dev mode?
Hi, Steven, and thanks for the kind welcome.
As a senior engineer, I occasionally mentor newer engineers and it
frequently reminds me that what is obvious to me is not obvious to those
starting out.
This is one of those cases, where those of us who have been around
Python for awhile can perhaps infer from context which his meant, but
the phrase "put your Python project into development mode" is ambiguous
in a way that is different from your example. This is because both dev
modes are a part of Python, unlike operating systems and platforms. That
is, Samsung Galaxy and Windows 10 are very different ecosystems, but
setuptools and Python features are part of the same ecosystem and often,
the same context.
Best,
coyot
P.S. Got a giggle out of Victor's color suggestion, taking bikeshedding
literally.
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