Emily Bowman wrote:
> If you can update to a breaking Python version, but aren't allowed one
> single point version of an external module, you have a process problem.
Agreed. Does it surprise you to know that many large organizations have a
process problem?
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> On 7 Sep 2020, at 14:28, Stefan Krah wrote:
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> On Mon, Sep 07, 2020 at 11:43:41AM +0100, Steve Dower wrote:
>> Rest assured, I am very aware of air-gapped and limited network systems, as
>> well as corporate policies and processes. Having distutils in the standard
>> library does not help w
On 9/6/2020 10:38 PM, Soumendra Ganguly wrote:
Hello.
I am currently using a tiling window manager ( i3wm ). While
using pty.spawn(), resizing xterm's X window also resizes the
underlying terminal size; as a result, output of commands such as
ls(1) become incorrectly laid out, making them
On Mon, Sep 07, 2020 at 02:40:40PM +0100, Steve Dower wrote:
> > Air-gapped systems were just an illustration of the problem. I did not
> > anticipate that people would take it as the centerpiece of my arguments.
>
> Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that - I used "limited network" to capture the
> re
On Sat, Sep 5, 2020 at 5:14 PM Edwin Zimmerman
wrote:
> The point remains that these situations exist where it is simply
> impossible to run 'pip install xyz' due to network restrictions. I know
> this firsthand because I have written software for enforcing total internet
> blocks.
>
I'm not su
On 07Sep2020 1424, Stefan Krah wrote:
On Mon, Sep 07, 2020 at 11:43:41AM +0100, Steve Dower wrote:
Rest assured, I am very aware of air-gapped and limited network systems, as
well as corporate policies and processes. Having distutils in the standard
library does not help with any of these.
Of
On Mon, Sep 07, 2020 at 11:43:41AM +0100, Steve Dower wrote:
> Rest assured, I am very aware of air-gapped and limited network systems, as
> well as corporate policies and processes. Having distutils in the standard
> library does not help with any of these.
Of course it helps. You can develop ex
Thanks everyone for your input so far.
Rest assured, I am very aware of air-gapped and limited network systems,
as well as corporate policies and processes. Having distutils in the
standard library does not help with any of these.
Do not forget that pip (and presently, though not permanently,
