On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 12:46, Leonardo Santagada <santag...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sep 14, 2009, at 4:19 PM, Jesse Noller wrote: > >> How is there any harm in offering 3 downloads? The obvious thing is to >> click on the big "get some pythons on" button which gets what we know >> as python today. > > Confusing the hell out of users. Right now there is a lot more links on the > download page than it should (why offer both a tar.gz and a bz2 on the main > download page?). Another improvement would be to divide it by operating > system with an icon (and name, just the icon or the name is not enough to > most people). But this is of topic. > > IMHO we should divide this dicussion in 3: > > 1) Breaking the repo to help all the other python implementations. This > means moving tests and let the python implementations start classifying > which tests are platform dependent or not. (I would vote +1 if I could) >
This actually doesn't really require a discussion until someone volunteers to spearhead it because it will happen, it's just a question of who will lead it and whether they will wait for the Mercurial transition. -Brett _______________________________________________ stdlib-sig mailing list stdlib-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/stdlib-sig
