[Python-Dev] No longer at ActiveState. (original) (raw)

Tim Peters tim.one@home.com
Wed, 19 Dec 2001 01:13:44 -0500

[Mark Hammond]

FYI, I am no longer emplyed by ActiveState (Merry Christmas! :)

Indeed! So you'll be using the PythonLabs installer again? Pay close attention to its "Installation Finished" screen -- I changed that months ago in anticipation of your coming home to us .

ActiveState have pretty much stopped all Komodo and Python work for the forseeable future. This left me without an immediate project and therefore without an immediate job.

Bummer. It's times like this I'm glad Aussies don't have feelings.

It was very dissapointing to hear this just after slaving to get the 1.2 release of Komodo out the door and just a few days before Christmas.

Yup. If it's any consolation, BeOpen.com stopped paying us the week before Python 2.0 was scheduled for release. We all wanted to go on a month-long bender, but Guido didn't let us leave his office until the release was finished. See? You could have been working for Guido, and then what a living hell your life would have been ...

So, please don't use my ActiveState.com email address. Further, I will probably be moving back to being self-employed (in the short term anyway), so if anyone hears of suitable opportunities, then feel free to pass them my way :)

Will do.

On the bright side, it will free my time to finish up some pending Python work I have been meaning to do.

If you find a way to move Armin Rigo's Psyco along while getting paid for it, I'll join you. Else I'll just reassign every bug and patch with the string "win" in it to you -- heh heh.

Have a relaxed holiday, Mark! We'll still be here when you get out of detox.

or-at-least-guido-will-be-and-that's-enough-ly y'rs - tim