Path: csiph.com!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed4.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.003 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.99; '*S*': 0.00; 'from:addr:yahoo.co.uk': 0.04; 'argument': 0.05; 'subject:Python': 0.06; 'lawrence': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'language,': 0.12; 'creates': 0.14; 'language.': 0.14; 'thread': 0.14; 'defended': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'sees': 0.16; 'subject:library': 0.16; 'travis': 0.16; 'language': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; '>>>': 0.22; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.23; 'source': 0.25; 'possibly': 0.26; 'posts': 0.26; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.27; 'header:In- Reply-To:1': 0.27; 'chris': 0.29; 'am,': 0.29; "doesn't": 0.30; 'dec': 0.30; 'code': 0.31; 'that.': 0.31; 'default,': 0.31; 'running': 0.33; 'fri,': 0.33; 'knowledge': 0.35; "can't": 0.35; 'no,': 0.35; 'but': 0.35; 'google': 0.35; 'there': 0.35; "he's": 0.36; 'list': 0.37; 'product.': 0.38; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.38; 'bad': 0.39; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'mailing': 0.39; 'received:org': 0.40; 'making': 0.63; 'our': 0.64; 'worth': 0.66; 'fortunately,': 0.84; 'who,': 0.84; '2013,': 0.91; 'don\xe2\x80\x99t': 0.91; 'rusi': 0.91; '2013': 0.98 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Mark Lawrence Subject: Re: Packaging a proprietary Python library for multiple OSs Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2013 17:22:57 +0000 References: <58d49c5b-c837-4dac-b764-369fea02568c@googlegroups.com> <921295d6-a73f-4379-a938-c5188e35b6bd@googlegroups.com> <219CFE92-92F1-47EB-850C-BDF5024E1F3E@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: host-78-147-186-219.as13285.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.1.1 In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 35 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1386264186 news.xs4all.nl 2896 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:43471 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:61100 On 05/12/2013 16:20, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 2:32 AM, Travis Griggs wrote: >> >> On Dec 5, 2013, at 2:56 AM, rusi wrote: >> >>> 3. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/python-virtualenv may be a better >>> place to ask >> >> Am I the only one that sees the irony in this suggestion? Given the long running tirades^H^H^H^H^H^H thread about “Managing Google Groups headaches”? >> >> “Pleassse don’t use Google Groupssssesss. It’sss nasssty. It hurtssess our eyesssessss with itsss long linessssieesss. Unlessssss it hassss a ssspecial neeeeed. Then the groupssesss are OK, Yessss?" > > No, it's not like that. It's that there are some people who, despite > truckloads of evidence to the contrary, still think that Google Groups > is worth using. Rusi is one of them. Fortunately, he has defended his > position by making his posts not look like the ridiculous junk that GG > creates by default, but that doesn't make GG a good product. It's like > an argument my boss and I had: I said that PHP is a bad language, and > he said that it can't possibly be a bad language because he's able to > write good code in it. > > I don't know what mailing list there is for virtualenv as I don't use > it, but there's likely to be an alternative source of knowledge on it. > > ChrisA > gmane.comp.python.virtualenv -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence