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On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 4:27 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> wrote:
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?
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 andSure. Now please convince Linux distributions first, because this
> nondev today. �There's no particular reason why the line couldn't be drawn
> somewhere else.
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?