-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 12/08/2012 05:06 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> Building integrated systems *is hard*. Pretending projects can't > conflict just because they're both written in Python isn't sensible, > and neither is it sensible to avoid warning users about the the > potential for latent defects when particular packages are used in > combination. Building such systems is *too hard* to deletgate to the maintainers of every Python distribution registered on the Cheeseshop: there is too much policy involved for the ha'penn'orth of mechanism we are discussing here (decentralized inter-project metadata) to support. Such metadata *cannot* be useful in the general sense, but only in the context of a "curated" collection of packages, where the *curator* (not the upstream package authors) makes the choices. Tres. - -- =================================================================== Tres Seaver +1 540-429-0999 tsea...@palladion.com Palladion Software "Excellence by Design" http://palladion.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with undefined - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlDDwioACgkQ+gerLs4ltQ4rOACghpN5x+k0w0Umn20AG1WOvYkq KQsAnibXQtbTnmbrPaMaVEfLH7W496lk =WAh9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ 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