[Python-Dev] Raising objections (original) (raw)

Anthony Baxter anthony at interlink.com.au
Thu Apr 20 06:34:55 CEST 2006

On Thursday 20 April 2006 14:18, Fredrik Lundh wrote:

Anthony Baxter wrote: > > http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html > > Yes. I remember that piece. In particular, he wrote the original > rant about this about Mozilla/Firefox. How did that work out > again? Oh, that's right - we now have a much, much more > successful and usable browser.

his point isn't that it cannot be done, it's that it is horridly expensive and time consuming. exactly how much money and time has gone into getting firefox to the point where it is today?

And I would reply that sometimes a rewrite is necessary. I doubt firefox would be at the state it is today if it was still based on the ancient netscape codebase.

In any case, this is not relevant, since setuptools is not a rewrite.

Anthony

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