[Python-Dev] Keyword meanings [was: Accept just PEP-0426] (original) (raw)

Tres Seaver tseaver at palladion.com
Sat Dec 8 23:41:46 CET 2012

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On 12/08/2012 05:06 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote:

Building integrated systems is hard. Pretending projects can't conflict just because they're both written in Python isn't sensible, and neither is it sensible to avoid warning users about the the potential for latent defects when particular packages are used in combination.

Building such systems is too hard to deletgate to the maintainers of every Python distribution registered on the Cheeseshop: there is too much policy involved for the ha'penn'orth of mechanism we are discussing here (decentralized inter-project metadata) to support.

Such metadata cannot be useful in the general sense, but only in the context of a "curated" collection of packages, where the curator (not the upstream package authors) makes the choices.

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