[Brett] >> But I don't think this is trying to say they don't care. People just want >> to lower the overhead of maintaining the distro.
[Fredrik] > well, wouldn't the best way to do that be to leave all non-trivial > maintenance of a > given component to an existing external community? > > (after all, the number of non-python-dev python contributors are *much* larger > than the number of python-dev contributors). > > I mean, we're not really talking about ordinary leak-elimination or > portability-fixing > or security-hole-plugging maintenance; it's the > let's-extend-the-api-in-incompatible- > ways and fork-because-we-can stuff that I'm worried about. Well, look at the changes Philip originally complained about: C:\Code\python\Lib\wsgiref>svn log -rHEAD:0 -v --stop-on-copy ------------------------------------------------------------------------ r46887 | phillip.eby | 2006-06-12 00:04:32 -0400 (Mon, 12 Jun 2006) | 2 lines Changed paths: ... Sync w/external release 0.1.2. Please see PEP 360 before making changes to external packages. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ r46855 | neal.norwitz | 2006-06-11 03:26:27 -0400 (Sun, 11 Jun 2006) | 1 line Changed paths: M /python/trunk/Lib/pkgutil.py M /python/trunk/Lib/wsgiref/validate.py Fix errors found by pychecker ------------------------------------------------------------------------ r46800 | andrew.kuchling | 2006-06-09 15:43:25 -0400 (Fri, 09 Jun 2006) | 1 line Changed paths: M /python/trunk/Lib/wsgiref/simple_server.py Remove unused variable ------------------------------------------------------------------------ r46794 | brett.cannon | 2006-06-09 14:40:46 -0400 (Fri, 09 Jun 2006) | 2 lines Changed paths: M /python/trunk/Lib/msilib M /python/trunk/Lib/test/crashers M /python/trunk/Lib/wsgiref svn:ignore .pyc and .pyo files. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ r46787 | tim.peters | 2006-06-09 13:47:00 -0400 (Fri, 09 Jun 2006) | 2 lines Changed paths: M /python/trunk/Lib/wsgiref/handlers.py M /python/trunk/Lib/wsgiref/headers.py M /python/trunk/Lib/wsgiref/simple_server.py M /python/trunk/Lib/wsgiref/util.py M /python/trunk/Lib/wsgiref/validate.py Whitespace normalization. That's all ordinary everyday maintenance, and, e.g., there is no mechanism to exempt anything in a checkout tree from reindent.py or PyChecker complaints. In addition, not shown above is that I changed test_wsgiref.py to stop a test failure under -O. Given that we're close to the next Python release, and test_wsgiref was the only -O test failure, I wasn't going to let that stand. I did wait ~30 hours between emailing about the problem and fixing it, but I like to whittle down my endless todo list too <0.4 wink>. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
