Alex Martelli wrote: > Fuzzyman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > That's potentially very good news. (Or slightly sinister -depending on > > your paranoia levels). > > > > You got any references on that ? > > I don't think there was any official announcement, but it's true -- he > sits about 15 meters away from me;-). >
Cool - pass on my regards and thanks to him. ;-) > > > I was just thinking that the open source offerings from google are > > actually pretty pitiful - considering the time investment they have put > > into developing software systems. (Summer of Code not-withstanding of > > course). > > The key technical person for opensource at Google isn't Guido and isn't > me -- rather, I'd focus on Greg Stein (whose contributions to open > source have been very wide-ranging, and who's been our engineering > manager for opensource for quite a while now... not a secret, you can > read about that on Greg's own blog). If you want more opensource from > us, he's most probably the best person to bug about it!-). I'm sure > that, being the chairman of the Apache Software Foundation (the VP of > the ASF is also a Google employee), he can bend your ears about that;-). > Well, employing key open-source personnel and supporting them in their work *probably* counts as helping the open-source world. OTOH they (you...) must have worked on/with tremendous systems - like load balancing software as one example off the top of my head. I guess these are the competitive edge of google - and also there is a lot of work turning in house systems into 'released' ones, even if the will is there. Even so - the code that has been directly released by google is relatively slender. > > > I wonder if this heralds google finally upgrading from Python 2.2 ;-) > > We currently use multiple versions of Python, and I personally don't see > that changing overnight. But, we'll see. > I've no axe to grind on that one. All the best, Fuzzyman http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/index.shtml > > Alex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list