On 01 November 1999, Mark Hammond said:
> I have for some time been wondering about the usefulness of this
> mailing list. It seems to have produced staggeringly few results
> since inception.
Perhaps this is an indication of stability rather than stagnation. Of
course we can't have *total* stability or Python 1.6 will never appear,
but...
> * Portable "spawn" module for core?
> No result.
...I started this little thread to see if there was any interest, and to
find out the easy way if VMS/Unix/DOS-style "spawn sub-process with list
of strings as command-line arguments" makes any sense at all on the Mac
without actually having to go learn about the Mac.
The result: if 'spawn()' is added to the core, it should probably be
'os.spawn()', but it's not really clear if this is necessary or useful
to many people; and, no, it doesn't make sense on the Mac. That
answered my questions, so I don't really see the thread as a failure. I
might still turn the distutils.spawn module into an appendage of the os
module, but there doesn't seem to be a compelling reason to do so.
Not every thread has to result in working code. In other words,
negative results are results too.
Greg
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