[Python-Dev] Dropping externally maintained packages (Was: Please stop changing wsgiref on the trunk) (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Mon Jun 12 22:35:36 CEST 2006

On 6/12/06, Thomas Heller <theller at python.net> wrote:

I will be happy to say "ctypes is part of Python" (although I fear it is not one of the packages enthusiastically supported by Guido ;-).

I don't plan to use it myself, but I'm very happy that it's in the stdlib since so many people like it.

Somebody please update PEP 360 (and PEP 291).

Well, if the compatibility requirements can be retained, at least (ctypes should currently be compatible with Python 2.3, but that can probably be raised to 2.4 when Python 2.5 is officially released, or shortly thereafter).

That ought to be indicated in PEP 291 and in the ctypes source code somewhere.

I am very thankful for the fixes, the code review, the suggestions, and the encouragement I got by various python-devers.

You're welcome. And we're thankful for your contribution!

I'm even happy to revert changes by others done by accident (which destroy comatibility with Python 2.3, for example. Well, there was only one).

Please keep in mind that reverting someone else's changes without prior discussion is a very rude thing to do. The proper procedure is to point out their mistake and give them the opportunity to revert it themselves (or defend their change -- so a public discussion can ensue).

Disagreements should not be settled by battling checkins; I'd like to see that developers who ignore this rule repeatedly risk having their commit privileges taken away temporarily.

-- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)

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