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

Phillip J. Eby pje at telecommunity.com
Tue Jun 13 01:58:43 CEST 2006

At 01:36 AM 6/13/2006 +0200, Martin v. Löwis wrote:

From that, I can only conclude that you requested that people should not make changes again without contacting you or the Web-SIG.

Indeed I was -- back when I was under the mistaken impression that PEP 360 actually meant what it appeared to say about other packages added in 2.5. In that universe, what I said made perfect sense. :-)

And if we were in an alternate hypothetical universe where, say, instead of PEP 360 not really being followed, it was the unit testing policy, then we would all be yelling at Tim for being rude about people breaking the tests, when he should "just expect" that people will break tests, because after all, they have to change the code, and it's not reasonable to expect them to change the tests too.

So, to summarize, it's all actually Tim's fault, but only in a parallel universe where nobody believes in unit testing. ;-)

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