Re: [python-committers] Providing .tgz sources

2010-12-05 Thread Andrew Dalke
On Dec 5, 2010, at 9:55 PM, Brett Cannon wrote: > Well, is it more popular because that is just what people are used to > downloading or the first download link on the web page? Or is it > because people fundamentally prefer tgz files over tar.bz2? I prefer tgz over tar.bz2 because my fingers are

Re: [python-committers] Python Language Summit at PyCon

2012-01-30 Thread Andrew Dalke
On Jan 30, 2012, at 8:38 PM, Brian Curtin wrote: > Unfortunately we didn't get many proposals for 3.x talks this year. It may not be as bad as you think. My talk for EuroPython last year ("Python's Other Collection Types and Algorithms") used Python 3.2 for all of the examples, but nothing in th

Re: [python-committers] My cavalier and aggressive manner, API change and bugs introduced for basically zero benefit

2017-01-20 Thread Andrew Dalke
As more of an ex-Python committer, I have little to say about current processes. I will make one observation: On Jan 20, 2017, at 11:45 AM, Victor Stinner wrote: > I introduced a regression in random.Random.seed(): ... > IMHO the regression is not "catastrophic". Only few developers > instancia