On Jan 24, 9:54 pm, Stephen Hansen <me+list/pyt...@ixokai.io> wrote: > On 1/24/11 2:16 PM, rantingrick wrote:
> wxPython is open source, and technically anyone has the legal right to > include it in whatever they want -- but no module goes into stdlib, > period, without it being donated by its authors for that purpose. Ok. So you are saying that wxPython *could* possibly go into the stdlib and equally wxPython could possibly *not* go into th stdlib? Ok, go on... > Period. Python-dev is not so discourteous as to absorb someone elses > code without their go-ahead (and more then that: they don't generally > absorb anyone elses code without that person making a _commitment_ to > supporting it, in the stdlib, for multiple years). > > So: no author answers to Guido unless they decide they want to. Ok? So you are saying that wxPython *could* possibly go into the stdlib and equally wxPython could possibly *not* go into th stdlib? Ok, go on... > Not that I'm suggesting Robin wouldn't go for it if someone with actual > standing asked: but I'm not suggesting he would, either. Ok! So you are saying that wxPython *could* possibly go into the stdlib and equally wxPython could possibly *not* go into th stdlib? Ok, go on... > I have no idea > if the stdlib development cycle fits the wxPython one, since wxPython > tracks wxWidgets releases. (Totally notwithstanding the elephant in the > room that nothing new is going to go into 2.x at all, and wxPython > doesn't presently support 3.x.) OK,OK,OK!! So you are saying that wxPython *could* possibly go into the stdlib and equally wxPython could possibly *not* go into th stdlib? HOWEVER no matter what it FOR SURE can't go into Python2.x! Ok, go on... > Robin actually has an unappealable veto over the whole idea, if he so > chose to exercise it. GEESH!! So you are saying that wxPython *could* possibly go into the stdlib and equally wxPython could possibly *not* go into th stdlib? Ok, go on... > Just thought I'd interject some reality into your delusion that there is > some Python Kingdom and that King Guido can "decide" all manner of > things and it'll cause them to happen. Stephen can i sum up your post as..."it could go either way"? PS: And you guys wonder why i rant so much! :-) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list