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

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Thu Apr 20 11:35:00 CEST 2006

Anthony Baxter wrote:

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html

From what I remember, he didn't actually say that you should never rewrite anything, but that if you do, you need to be prepared for a very long period of time when nothing new is working, and that if you are a commercial company this is a bad idea.

But Python is not dependent on getting new features out the door before its competitors in order to survive, so this doesn't really apply. It doesn't matter if people have to make do with the old distutils for a while until something better is available.

-- Greg

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