Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder1.news.weretis.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed4a.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!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 0.002 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 1.00; '*S*': 0.00; 'from:addr:yahoo.co.uk': 0.04; 'mrab': 0.05; 'lawrence': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'subject:into': 0.09; 'yeah,': 0.09; 'subject:How': 0.10; 'python': 0.11; 'language.': 0.14; 'charge,': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'roy': 0.16; 'subject:install': 0.16; 'upgrades.': 0.16; 'language': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; 'code.': 0.18; '>>>': 0.22; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.23; 'tend': 0.24; '---': 0.24; 'source': 0.25; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.27; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.27; 'point': 0.28; 'direction': 0.30; '3.x': 0.31; 'continues': 0.31; 'stuff': 0.32; 'not.': 0.33; 'more,': 0.35; 'really': 0.36; 'implement': 0.38; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.38; 'previous': 0.38; 'that,': 0.38; 'subject:can': 0.39; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'received:org': 0.40; 'free': 0.61; 'break': 0.61; 'viruses': 0.61; 'further': 0.61; 'protection': 0.63; 'our': 0.64; 'provide': 0.64; 'antivirus': 0.68; 'smith': 0.68; 'apart': 0.72; '2.8': 0.84; 'horrible': 0.84 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Mark Lawrence Subject: Re: How to turn a package into something pip can install Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2014 15:47:43 +0000 References: <5300D734.702@mrabarnett.plus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: host-78-147-189-196.as13285.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.3.0 In-Reply-To: <5300D734.702@mrabarnett.plus.com> X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 140216-0, 16/02/2014), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean 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: 33 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1392565686 news.xs4all.nl 2837 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:44761 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:66547 On 16/02/2014 15:20, MRAB wrote: > On 2014-02-16 15:06, Mark Lawrence wrote: >> On 16/02/2014 14:25, Roy Smith wrote: >>> >>> We tend not to upgrade stuff unless there's a good reason to. You never >>> know what will break (looking furtively in the direction of the Python >>> 3.x mafiosi). >>> >> >> Yeah, those really unpleasant, nasty, horrible mafiosi who have the >> audacity to point out that people have only been given seven (ish) years >> so far to plan and implement their upgrades. Then the mafiosi further >> complain when people ask if they can have a Python 2.8 to help plan and >> implement their upgrades. Yep, this mafiosi mob really do have a lot to >> answer for. Not. >> > And, what's more, this mafiosi mob cruelly continues to provide the > previous releases on its website free of charge, including all the > source code. The obligatory "And apart from that, what have the mafiosi ..." :) -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com