[Python-Dev] BDFL pronouncement? (original) (raw)
C. Titus Brown ctb at msu.edu
Fri Oct 9 23:00:09 CEST 2009
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On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 01:56:42PM -0700, Guido van Rossum wrote:
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 1:50 PM, Georg Brandl <g.brandl at gmx.net> wrote: > Chris Withers schrieb: >> Guido van Rossum wrote: >>> I'm saying that I don't expect setuptools 0.7 to appear before Tarek's >>> Distribute is mature and in widespread use. IOW I support Tarek's fork >>> and suggest nobody hold their breath waiting for setuptools 0.7. >> >> Well, if this was the BDFL pronouncement that a lot of people have taken >> it to be, does that allow Martin von Lewis to give the keys to >> http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools to the "distribute" developers, >> so we can get on and use the original "setuptools" name without all the >> confusion and hackery needed to make "distribute" work? > > That's absurd. ?There's a certain area where Guido can make pronouncements, > but third-party packages is not it. ?Even if they're hosted on python.org > infrastructure.
Right.
Is that a pronouncement?
:)
"GvR, the self-limiting BDFL."
--titus
C. Titus Brown, ctb at msu.edu
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