Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan <at> gmail.com> writes: > On 15 October 2014 12:20, Stefan Krah <stefankrah <at> freenet.de> wrote: > > > > At this point (and possibly before) you are just trolling and not worth > > any further correspondence. If some of your feigned surprise questions > > are actually genuine, I recommend walking away from the keyboard for a > > couple of weeks and reading some literature. > > Otherwise it is just a waste of time to attempt any further conversation.
[In case anyone is using a non-threaded view: The above paragraph was not directed at Nick.] > Stefan, I personally apologise if at any point you, or any other > developer that chooses to use non-PyPI hosting, has ever been (or even > felt) personally attacked over your hosting choices. I feel a bit embarrassed, since you have absolutely nothing to apologize for. It is a very nice gesture, so thanks! > There's no way we > can hope to ensure that folks that are passionate about the end user > experience offered by the Python packaging ecosystem first come up to > speed on the subtleties of copyright licensing (and the concerns > around the current clause in PyPI's conditions of use that ensures, > amongst other things, the legal right to operate PyPI mirrors) or US > export restrictions (and the fact that uploading to PyPI requires > agreeing to abide by them, which may not be an acceptable condition > for non-US based developers). Some people who *should* know better have repeatedly engaged in off-list FUD and personal attacks. It is nowhere near the level that, say, Lennart Poettering had to deal with, but enough for me to lose quite a bit of interest in Python core development. Stefan Krah _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
