On Wed, 13 Feb 2019 at 20:50, Antoine Pitrou <anto...@python.org> wrote: > Apparently you're saying that just because you can't/don't want to use a > more appropriate tool, other people shouldn't be able too. That sounds > ridiculous to me. Use an inferior tool if you want, but don't force > other people to.
That;'s a common complaint in these discussions and it has some merit. However, Gregory also said (in a very relevant comment that you unfortunately omitted): >> If we want to enforce an interface on people, IMNSHO that is what something >> like Discourse is for The question here is fundamentally, whether we do want to enforce an interface on people. If we do, then there will be some losers (people with effective and highly tuned email workflows, like yourself) and some winners (for example, people like me who cannot in practical terms use anything other than a web interface). The judgement is whether the benefit to, and number of, the winners outweighs the disadvantages to, and the numbers of, the losers. (And the more abstract question of whether restricting users' choice is a good or a bad thing, but I'm going to pass on that). I don't know the answer. As a "winner", my feeling is that the advantage to me is marginal for longer more complex discussions, and reasonable for shorter discussions. So I don't feel that I'm much of a data point. Paul _______________________________________________ python-committers mailing list python-committers@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-committers Code of Conduct: https://www.python.org/psf/codeofconduct/