[Raymond, I'm assuming you did not mean to send your reply to me
privately, so I'm cc'ing python-dev!]
On 21 April 2003, Raymond Hettinger said:
> Why is it important to keep two separate implementations?
> Also, if you have to have two, why not have the python cvs
> as the primary (to the remove the restriction, to take advantage
> of the snake farm, to let third party users have a single place
> to file a bug report, to have more developer eyes and fingers
> to work a problem, etc)?
Hmmm, good question. Probably it's mostly for ego gratification -- one
of *my* SF projects was above the 50th percentile in activity last week,
just because of my flurry of checkins on Sunday! ;->
But seriously: if people using Python < 2.3 are to be able to use Optik
(aka optparse), then there needs to be somewhere for the setup script,
tarball etc. to live. optik.sourceforge.net is as good a place as any.
Perhaps in due course, the code in Lib/optparse.py (and
Lib/test/test_optparse.py) will become the definitive copy, but for now
it's not.
Greg
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