Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Thu Feb 10 03:43:06 CET 2011

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On 10/02/11 11:44, Nick Coghlan wrote:

> Changing that will require a patch and advocacy from folks that are
> actually *fans* of sourceless distribution, as opposed to merely
> tolerating them as an arguably necessary evil.

Labelling sourceless distributions as a "necessary evil" comes
across to me as a political stance, not based on any technical
argument. I don't think that this kind of ideological thinking
should have any place in deciding what goes into Python.

-- 
Greg

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