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On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 4:27 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> wrote:

On Sat, 27 Aug 2011 16:19:01 -0700

Dan Stromberg <drsalists@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2) It's a rather arbitrary distinction that's being drawn between dev and
> nondev today. �There's no particular reason why the line couldn't be drawn
> somewhere else.

Sure. Now please convince Linux distributions first, because this
particular subthread is going nowhere.

Interesting.� You seem to want to throw an arbitrary barrier between Python, the language, and accomplishing something important for said language.

Care to tell me why I'm wrong?� I'm all ears.

I'll note that you've deleted:

> 1) We could easily work with the dev / nondev distinction by
> taking a dependency on the -dev version of whatever we need,
> instead of the nondev version.

...which makes it more than apparent that we needn't convince Linux distributors of #2, which you seem to prefer to focus on.

Why was it in your best interest to delete #1, without even commenting on it?