David Lyon writes: > On Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:38:26 -0700, Brett Cannon <br...@python.org> wrote:
> > David, you are making a huge leap here thinking that we even want > > a package manager in the stdlib. > > Well - who is 'we'? If it's python-dev people I can accept and > respect that. Yes. The stdlib is a product of python-dev. > If it's regular developers out there in developer land, They are not participants in this decision. python-dev people *do* care about them. Nevertheless python-dev is manifestly uninterested in dealing with *this* issue on behalf of the "regular developers out there". (With good reasons IMHO, but you can find those reasons elsewhere.) To make progress here on python-dev, you need to get those regular developers involved in python-dev. I can think of two ways to do this that will help. (1) Turn them into committers via whatever aspect of the language they are interested in. This will take a while, and substantial contribution (ie, effort) on their part. Once that happens, they will be in a much stronger position to advocate the package manager and credibly promise to maintain it (or find a new, credible maintainer) indefinitely. (2) Put the package manager on PyPI and get a lot of people on the bandwagon. If it's a good product and recommended, the movers and shakers of python-dev will be very likely to try it and more likely to second your motion in the future. _______________________________________________ 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
