[Python-Dev] [Python-3000] No beta2 tonight (original) (raw)

Stephen J. Turnbull stephen at xemacs.org
Fri Jul 18 21:06:01 CEST 2008

Nick Coghlan writes:

And downloading pybsddb and installing really shouldn't be all that difficult :)

It shouldn't be, but lots of "enterprise"[1] environments will require qualifying the "new" package according to corporate standards.

I won't argue that this is a sufficient reason to keep a package with bsddb's history in stdlib, but let's not joke about the difficulties.

Footnotes: [1] Which apparently means that the company can be enterprising, but the people who do the work mustn't be!