Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!news.stack.nl!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed1.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 0.013 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.97; '*S*': 0.00; 'broken': 0.04; 'subject:Python': 0.06; 'nntp': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'gmane': 0.16; 'kern': 0.16; 'newsgroup.': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'roy': 0.16; 'subject:library': 0.16; 'underlying': 0.16; 'url:gmane': 0.16; 'usenet': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; '(not': 0.18; 'thu,': 0.19; 'seems': 0.21; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.23; 'interpret': 0.24; 'tells': 0.24; 'connected': 0.24; '(or': 0.24; 'right.': 0.26; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.27; 'header:In- Reply-To:1': 0.27; 'tried': 0.27; "doesn't": 0.30; 'dec': 0.30; 'matching': 0.30; 'network.': 0.30; 'robert': 0.30; 'went': 0.31; 'that.': 0.31; 'asks': 0.31; 'lists': 0.32; 'front': 0.32; 'service,': 0.32; 'url:python': 0.33; 'entirely': 0.33; 'but': 0.35; 'vice': 0.36; 'url:org': 0.36; 'should': 0.36; 'so,': 0.37; 'list': 0.37; 'email addr:python.org': 0.37; 'server': 0.38; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.38; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'mailing': 0.39; 'received:org': 0.40; 'even': 0.60; 'hearing': 0.63; 'our': 0.64; 'email name:python-list': 0.65; 'world': 0.66; 'believe': 0.68; 'smith': 0.68; 'superior': 0.69; 'url:search': 0.81; '05,': 0.84; 'eco': 0.84; 'terrible': 0.84; 'url:php': 0.85; 'received:86': 0.91; '2013': 0.98 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Robert Kern Subject: Re: Packaging a proprietary Python library for multiple OSs Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2013 18:28:25 +0000 References: <58d49c5b-c837-4dac-b764-369fea02568c@googlegroups.com> <921295d6-a73f-4379-a938-c5188e35b6bd@googlegroups.com> <219CFE92-92F1-47EB-850C-BDF5024E1F3E@gmail.com> <9b899369-c6c9-44d1-980f-05c32c704e07@googlegroups.com> <20131205175045.GA7679@piedra> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: cpc2-cmbg17-2-0-cust347.5-4.cable.virginm.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.1.1 In-Reply-To: <20131205175045.GA7679@piedra> 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: 30 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1386268122 news.xs4all.nl 2943 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:58797 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:61104 On 2013-12-05 17:50, Zero Piraeus wrote: > : > > On Thu, Dec 05, 2013 at 09:12:30AM -0800, Roy Smith wrote: >> I keep hearing that I should use gmane as a superior interface. Well, >> I tried that. I went to http://dir.gmane.org/search.php, where it >> asks me to search for a newsgroup. I type in "comp.lang.python", and >> it tells me, "No matching groups". So, that seems pretty broken to >> me. > > That's not entirely fair - Gmane presents mailing lists as newsgroups, > not vice versa, so it doesn't know that python-list@python.org is > connected to comp.lang.python (or that comp.lang.python even exists). > > A search for the mailing list from the front page works just fine: > > http://gmane.org/find.php?list=python-list%40python.org Right. GMane is an NNTP service, but it is not part of the USENET network. comp.lang.python is a USENET newsgroup and requires a true USENET server (not just an NNTP server) to access. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco