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Re: PEPs should be included with the documentation download

From Ned Deily <nad@acm.org>
Subject Re: PEPs should be included with the documentation download
Date 2013-08-23 01:14 -0700
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In article <7wvc2xkjvz.fsf@benfinney.id.au>,
 Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> wrote:
> Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> writes:
> > Hence the question: How many people actually do use the downloaded
> > docs? Maybe it'd turn out to be quite high, but it's not an
> > unreasonable question.
> 
> I think it's an unreasonable question. What would you accept as an
> answer? Who could possibly be autoritative at estimating such a number?
> How would you choose between competing authorities and estimates?
> 
> It should be sufficient to realise that the reality of internet
> infrastructure in most countries makes it preferable – at least some of
> the time, for some significant, even if small, number of users – to read
> the documentation on local storage instead of on the internet.

In any case if you want to see this happen, someone needs to open an 
issue and make a case for it on the Python bug tracker.

-- 
 Ned Deily,
 nad@acm.org

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PEPs should be included with the documentation download Aseem Bansal <asmbansal2@gmail.com> - 2013-08-20 22:14 -0700
  Re: PEPs should be included with the documentation download Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-08-22 03:32 +1000
    Re: PEPs should be included with the documentation download Aseem Bansal <asmbansal2@gmail.com> - 2013-08-22 01:39 -0700
      Re: PEPs should be included with the documentation download Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-08-22 18:46 -0400
  Re: PEPs should be included with the documentation download random832@fastmail.us - 2013-08-21 13:55 -0400
    Re: PEPs should be included with the documentation download Aseem Bansal <asmbansal2@gmail.com> - 2013-08-22 01:45 -0700
  Re: PEPs should be included with the documentation download Jerry Hill <malaclypse2@gmail.com> - 2013-08-21 14:15 -0400
  Re: PEPs should be included with the documentation download random832@fastmail.us - 2013-08-21 14:28 -0400
  Re: PEPs should be included with the documentation download Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-08-22 04:50 +1000
  Re: PEPs should be included with the documentation download Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-08-21 16:15 -0400
  Re: PEPs should be included with the documentation download Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2013-08-21 20:27 -0400
  Re: PEPs should be included with the documentation download Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2013-08-23 11:47 +1000
  Re: PEPs should be included with the documentation download Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-08-23 11:54 +1000
    Re: PEPs should be included with the documentation download Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2013-08-23 13:19 +0000
  Re: PEPs should be included with the documentation download Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2013-08-23 16:21 +1000
  Re: PEPs should be included with the documentation download Ned Deily <nad@acm.org> - 2013-08-23 01:14 -0700
  Re: PEPs should be included with the documentation download Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2013-08-23 19:24 +1000

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