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Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2013 15:21:40 +1100
Subject: Re: What to make of 'make test' for python3 install from source (beaglebone angstrom install).
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On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 1:39 PM, Travis Griggs <travisgriggs@gmail.com> wrot=
e:
> <aside>I find this is a tricky topic to get help with. Most of the python=
 mailing list and irc channel is really about _python_ questions. Not the m=
eta aspect of building it. And the python-dev guys make it pretty clear (in=
 a nice way) that python-dev is for developing the next version of python (=
3.4 at the moment). They're probably the ones that really know these answer=
s more than the lay python developer though. It's too bad there's not a for=
um "in between" to share/ask for help with these kinds of things.</aside>

That would be because people are spending more time using Python than
installing it. :) But I'd say that this is a fine place to ask these
sorts of questions.

However, what I will say is this: Using Google Groups is a great way
to annoy a lot of people. Notice how your above paragraph came out as
a single line, meaning that it wasn't correctly wrapped before getting
the "> " prefix for quoted text. That's not good, and it's one of the
least of GG's annoyances. Please use a better client, or if you insist
on using Google Groups, check this out:

https://wiki.python.org/moin/GoogleGroupsPython

ChrisA