-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Martin v. Löwis wrote: >> I didn't say "from source", I said "from a VCS checkout". If using a >> *specific* recent official release of a core tool is bureaucratically >> infeasible, it would IMO be very unusual if you're allowed to checkout >> and build arbitrary versions of Python, rather than using a version >> provided by your bureaucrats. >> >> The number of people whose job is *specifically* developing Python, or >> developing code that depends on bleeding-edge Python, in such an >> environment is surely very small. > > This completely contradicts with my experience. In a university > environment, students regularly check out software from the source > repository, modify it, and build it, just to learn something by doing > so. Yet, in such an environment, they have little control over their > systems - they cannot install software themselves, but have to ask > the university bureaucrats (which often reject such wishes, unless > they come from a teacher - and often even in that case). > > There is no problem with people building their own versions of Python, > though - they do so in their home directories, and OS security > mechanisms prevent them from doing harm to other users.
Wouldn't such hypothetical core Python developers be able to build and run their own local copy of bzr, using that self-compiled Python? Let's not strain at gnats and swallow camels here. Tres. - -- =================================================================== Tres Seaver +1 540-429-0999 tsea...@palladion.com Palladion Software "Excellence by Design" http://palladion.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFJoD2c+gerLs4ltQ4RAjglAJ9fgoSD0g9jJm8Kw/Z2PBvyXKYIWQCeL+Xa lybDHEZyjZxG21inSFsn1W0= =d02o -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
