Message 150196 - Python tracker

Message150196

Author	pitrou
Recipients	Trundle, draghuram, eric.araujo, giampaolo.rodola, neologix, pitrou, r.david.murray, tarek, techtonik, vstinner
Date	2011-12-23.20:09:40
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> As a Windows programmer I am quite surprised to read this thread with > information that on Linux os.rename() overwrites files without questions, > so as I Windows programmer I want os.rename() to stop that. As a Windows programmer, you are not really qualified to criticize the behaviour of Unix systems. As a Linux programmer, I don't want to see the default behaviour changed. > No arguments == no consensus. We don't strive to achieve consensus. Agreement among the majority of core developers is enough, and you aren't part of the population anyway.

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> As a Windows programmer I am quite surprised to read this thread with
> information that on Linux os.rename() overwrites files without questions,
> so as I Windows programmer I want os.rename() to stop that.

As a Windows programmer, you are not really qualified to criticize the
behaviour of Unix systems.
As a Linux programmer, I don't want to see the default behaviour
changed.

> No arguments == no consensus.

We don't strive to achieve consensus. Agreement among the majority of
core developers is enough, and you aren't part of the population anyway.

History
Date	User	Action	Args
2011-12-23 20:09:41	pitrou	set	recipients: + pitrou, vstinner, draghuram, techtonik, giampaolo.rodola, tarek, eric.araujo, r.david.murray, Trundle, neologix
2011-12-23 20:09:40	pitrou	link	issue8828 messages
2011-12-23 20:09:40	pitrou	create