[Python-Dev] New winreg module really an improvement? (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido@beopen.com
Wed, 02 Aug 2000 16:54:47 -0500

OK. Fine. You say your module is great. The Windows weenies here don't want to touch it with a ten-foot pole. I'm not going to be able to dig all the way to the truth here -- I don't understand the Registry API at all.

I propose that you and Mark Hammond go off-line and deal with Mark's criticism one-on-one, and come back with a compromise that you are both happy with. I don't care what the compromise is, but both of you must accept it.

If you can't agree, or if I haven't heard from you by the time I'm ready to release 2.0b1 (say, end of August), winreg.py bites the dust.

I realize that this gives Mark Hammond veto power over the module, but he's a pretty reasonable guy, and he knows the Registry API better than anyone. It should be possible for one of you to convince the other.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.pythonlabs.com/~guido/)