[Python-Dev] PEP 287 (politics) (original) (raw)

Samuele Pedroni pedroni@inf.ethz.ch
Fri, 5 Apr 2002 14:56:15 +0200

Some humanity (which I appreciate) instead of a marketing-machine

[Goodger on doc-sig] <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/doc-sig/2002-March/002520.html>

This is a classic chicken-and-egg situation. Without tools, we can't get acceptance, but in this case producing the tools is such a big job that some form of acceptance up front is needed to keep up enthusiasm (mine, if nobody else's). One reason for putting this PEP out there now, is that I'm at a point where I've put a lot of work into this project, and it's starting to pay off, but I need some reassurance to keep me going. I want to know that I'm on the right track, that I'm not wasting my time, and getting this PEP accepted would go a long way in that direction.

Even if this PEP is rejected, that will be useful information. If accepted, then I can forget about supporting multiple markup parsers in Docutils, at least for now. If rejected, support for multiple parsers may be its saving grace.

now-I-can-better-relate-with-the-guy,-sincerely y'rs, Samuele Pedroni.