On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 22:46:58 +0200 Dag Sverre Seljebotn <d.s.seljeb...@astro.uio.no> wrote: > > The other thing is, the folks in distutils2 and myself, have zero > > knowledge about compilers. That's why we got very frustrated not to see > > people with that knowledge come and help us in this area. > > Here's the flip side: If you have zero knowledge about compilers, it's > going to be almost impossible to have a meaningful discussion about a > compilation PEP.
If a PEP is being discussed, even a packaging PEP, it involves all of python-dev, so Tarek and Éric not being knowledgeable in compilers is not a big problem. > The necessary prerequisites in this case is not merely "knowledge of > compilers". To avoid repeating mistakes of the past, the prerequisites > for a meaningful discussion is years of hard-worn experience building > software in various languages, on different platforms, using different > build tools. This is precisely the kind of knowledge that a PEP is aimed at distilling. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ 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
