Nick Coghlan schrieb: > Martin v. Löwis wrote: >> Nick Coghlan wrote: >>> Ben Finney wrote: >>>> anatoly techtonik <techto...@gmail.com> writes: >>>> >>>>> Quite an interesting question recently popped up in pygame community >>>>> that I'd like to ask to Python developers. >>>> This forum is specifically about development *of* Python. >>> Anatoly's question is actually a fair one for python-dev - we're the >>> ones that *ship* Idle, so it is legitimate to ask our reasons for >>> continuing to do so. >> >> But he didn't - instead, he asked how many of us use it. Usage by >> committers is not (or shouldn't be) a primary criterion for including >> or not including something. Instead, usage in the community should be, >> and python-dev is indeed the wrong place to estimate that. > > I took it as being a somewhat relevant leading question. If the response > had been "No, none of us use it" then the obvious follow-up question > would be "Why do you ship something that you don't consider worth using?".
Quite simple: because we can't possibly ship Emacs. cheers, Georg _______________________________________________ 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
