(Ian, your messages are failing to properly quote material you're responding to. The message you posted has no quote leaders on my material, which looks like it was written by you; see the message at <URL:https://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2017-March/030245.html>.
If this is some mangling done by GMail, you may need to change its configuration or post using something else until it's fixed.) Ian Cordasco <graffatcolmin...@gmail.com> writes: > If you can find a tool that is easy to install on Linux, Windows, and Mac, > which solves the problems above by virtue of having very good defaults, and > is accessible to anyone with less than a few hours to waste on it... Then > maybe I would collaborate to make it a requirement. No-one here has argued that it be a requirement as things stand now. I'm talking about encouraging it as a norm, by improving tool support to make it easier. -- \ “The fact of your own existence is the most astonishing fact | `\ you'll ever have to confront. Don't dare ever see your life as | _o__) boring, monotonous, or joyless.” —Richard Dawkins, 2010-03-10 | Ben Finney _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig