[Python-Dev] eggs now mandatory for pypi? (original) (raw)

Fred Drake fdrake at gmail.com
Mon Oct 5 23:06:50 CEST 2009


On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 4:24 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

When it comes to comments and recommendations for selecting software packages, developers are the end users :)

Yes, most certainly. But developers as consumers are very different from application users as consumers, which is what I was getting at.

The convenience interfaces for commenting on a library are far less valuable for developers, IMO, since developers are expected to better understand how their context impacts their perception. Useful feedback from a developer just doesn't fit will into the giant-pile-of-comments UIs conventional for non-developers.

If I'm wrong about that, then I'm saddened by the state of the profession.

-Fred

-- Fred L. Drake, Jr. "Chaos is the score upon which reality is written." --Henry Miller



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