On Apr 7, 2005 9:13 PM, Tripp Lilley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, David Ascher wrote:
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> > I think the idea of joking around with religious terms like ministry is
> > a bad idea, because we're not as funny as John Cleese & friends.
>
> Just for the record, the term "ministry,
On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, David Ascher wrote:
> I think the idea of joking around with religious terms like ministry is
> a bad idea, because we're not as funny as John Cleese & friends.
Just for the record, the term "ministry," outside the U.S., has more to do
with administrative functions of governme
> > I find the discussion depressing in many ways.
>
> Did i miss some of the discussion? At least on catalog-sig
> and in the blogs it was going quite ok in my opionion.
> But maybe we had different expectations :-)
I'm probably just being cranky for lack of sleep. Just ignore me =).
my 2c: s
Hi David,
On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 09:32 -0700, David Ascher wrote:
> I find the discussion depressing in many ways.
Did i miss some of the discussion? At least on catalog-sig
and in the blogs it was going quite ok in my opionion.
But maybe we had different expectations :-)
holger
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On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 13:51 -0700, Trent Mick wrote:
> [holger krekel wrote]
> > FWIW, i liked MOPP aka the ministry quite a bit.
>
> Do the religious overtones of "ministry" not bother people at all?
Ah, this connection didn't occur to me probably because
i am not a native speaker.
Anyway,
Brant Harris wrote:
> Now I know I am talking about superficialities here, and as a geek I
> understand it's completely against the geek code, but I believe it to
> be an important reality of our time.
I'm personally happy with the "publicity" that Python gets. It does
what I want it to do for me
Those things never occured to me.
Perhaps this will help: http://www.mwscomp.com/mpfc/silwalk.html
On Apr 7, 2005 3:59 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> On Thu, 7 Apr 2005 13:51:29 -0700, "Trent Mick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> said:
> > [holger krekel wrote]
> > > FWIW, i liked MOP
On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 10:48:53PM +0200, holger krekel wrote:
> Hi Richard,
>
> On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 13:11 +1000, Richard Jones wrote:
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> > After polling around for ideas, and looking at the various alternatives,
> > nothing really gr
On Thu, 7 Apr 2005 13:51:29 -0700, "Trent Mick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
said:
> [holger krekel wrote]
> > FWIW, i liked MOPP aka the ministry quite a bit.
>
> Do the religious overtones of "ministry" not bother people at all?
>
Reminds me of the death rock: http://www.ministrymusic.org/
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[holger krekel wrote]
> FWIW, i liked MOPP aka the ministry quite a bit.
Do the religious overtones of "ministry" not bother people at all?
> Another note: it appears that pronouncing pypy/pypi means
> "tits" in japanese ...
Ruby doesn't have a chance at catching Python then. :)
Trent
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Hi Richard,
On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 13:11 +1000, Richard Jones wrote:
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> After polling around for ideas, and looking at the various alternatives,
> nothing really grabs me. "PyPI" captures the nature of the beast we've
> created well-enough. I
I find the discussion depressing in many ways.
How bout just "Python catalog" (hence the mailing list =). Acronyms
are overrated.
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> It really is only *potentially* confusing when you're in the same room as
> the
> PyPy people.
>
Are telling me this is *not* the PyPy mailing list! Well may I suggest
we rewrite pypi in C, then?
Nah, I have been sitting back. I think the name should change, if
possible. Although it nee
On Apr 7, 2005 12:22 AM, Richard Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I understand your point completely, but frankly none of the suggestions
> received thus far shine very brightly. Hence my post.
None of the proposals excite me either, but I might come around to
MOPP/Ministry. I don't think I'd o
On Apr 4, 2005, at 1:49, Ian Bicking wrote:
Richard Jones wrote:
- - Shrubbery
- - MOPP (Ministry of Python Packages)
- - Vault
"Shrubbery" doesn't mean anything to me, and I'd have a hard time
using it in a sentence. "You can find that in the Shrubbery." I
guess I could say "Python Shrubbery",
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