On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 12:45:57PM +0100, Andy Robinson wrote: > > Message: 2 > > From: "David Ascher" <DavidA@ActiveState.com> > > To: "Python Developers @ python.org" <python-dev@python.org> > > Subject: RE: [Python-Dev] Japanese Codecs > > Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 11:54:03 -0700 > > charset="US-ASCII" > > > > > I just wish that these packagers actually become a reality > > > some day... the concept is good, but there currently seem to > > > be no volunteers or companies jumping in :-( > > > > I can't speak for Japanese packagers, but ActiveState will be packaging > > Python in various ways. > > > The handful of Python users who know some Japanese are kind of busy at the > moment, and the codec work takes more than a night or two; I was hoping to > tackle it myself, but as the only Python startup without any venture > funding, it is hard to clear aside the time without a customer; and it also > needs C skills. > > I believe we should try and put resources together to fund this work and > ensure it gets done this year. Um... why is it incumbent upon "us" (for whatever definition of "us" you want to apply :-) to find/fund the work for the Japanese codecs? Why isn't this up to the people who want/need it? Yes, being proactive is a very nice thing to do, but I don't see that we must be, in this case. > I can tell you that HP are now well and truly out of the picture as a > sponsor. eh? What's going on with that? Cheers, -g -- Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
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