[Python-Dev] py.ini documentation improvement (original) (raw)

Stephen J. Turnbull stephen at xemacs.org
Fri Nov 29 04:55:54 CET 2013

Nick Coghlan writes:

Turning my Windows gaming machine back to the default settings and trying to bootstrap pip was one of the key things that got me motivated to work on PEP 453. It still astounds me that one company can both create Visual Studio, and make it difficult to configure a machine to be suitable for software development, but I guess that's enterprise companies for you :)

Those of us who study management for a living are definitely not surprised. I recommend Robert Townsend's "Call Yourself Up" from Up the Organization: he advises CEOs to ring up the company's toll-free number and find out what the customers deal with. Urk!

This is the "same s---, different dept", that's all. And it's a lot harder to avoid than most folks think.

Kudos to Nick for "calling himself up", to python-dev for creating a language and development ecology with so few unnecessary barriers, and to Guido for setting the tone!

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