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Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2012 22:33:07 -0700 (PDT)
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On Monday, 24 September 2012 09:59:12 UTC+5:30, Terry Reedy  wrote:
> On 9/23/2012 11:59 PM, alex23 wrote:
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> > On Sep 21, 10:14 pm, xliiv <tymoteusz.jankow...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> >> On Friday, September 21, 2012 1:08:23 PM UTC+2, Tarek Ziad=E9 wrote:
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> >>> Python Paste is probably what you are looking for - see
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> >
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> >> It's a nice beast but:
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> >> - it's not built in. Should it be? I think it should.
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> >
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> > There needs to be a distinction at some point between Python as
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> > runtime and development environments. If you assume that there are
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> > more users of Python code than developers, then cluttering it with
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> > more developer-only tools is a waste of resources for those end users.
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> >
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> > Also: developers are fussy about their environments. One person's vi
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> > is another person's emacs. We keep various package skeletons in our
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> > git repository, and that works well for us, so adding Paste to Python
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> > is just more useless kruft from our perspective.
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> > And: easy_install/pip install paste isn't exactly crippling to type.
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> >
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> >> - about readme and manifest.in:
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> >> "You could add to your template a file called readme.rst"
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> >> i dont want to add, i want it already added :)
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> >
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> > If you'd just did as they asked, you'd already have this issue
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> > resolved by now.
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> >
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> > If you're waiting for the standard library to scratch your itch for
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> > you, you're going to be waiting for a long, _long_ time.
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> Batteries are batteries, not flashlights, phone, radios, toys, clickers,=
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> etc.
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> Terry Jan Reedy

Do remember to include laptops.