On Sat, Feb 1, 2014, at 12:40 PM, Vinay Sajip wrote: > On Sat, 1/2/14, Donald Stufft <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I never said anything gets magically better on GitHub, I > > told you the reason why *I* haven’t bothered to try it. > > And I'm OK with that. > > > Distlib is a significantly different case, it’s a library that is going to > > be > > directly useful for a very small population of people. The vast majority > > of people do not have any need or desire to directly work with distlib. > > And your point is? This is distutils-sig, not python-list: it's the only > reasonable place to try and solicit feedback for something like distlib. > I'm not *complaining* that I haven't had much feedback - just stating it. > To state the bleedin' obvious, I don't expect to have any say in how > other people spend their time, and I hope I didn't give any contrary > expectation. > > > I can guarantee you that if distlib wasn’t released under an > > OSS license that pip wouldn’t have used it > > Sure, but I assume it wasn't used *just* because of the license. It > has to be useful in some way too.
Sure, a useless tool/experiment is not made useful by a reasonable license, but a useful tool/experiment can be made useless by an unreasonable license. distil isn't licensed so that I can even legally *use* it as far as I understand the law. > > Regards, > > Vinay Sajip _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
