On Oct 5, 2009, at 4:59 AM, Ben Finney wrote: > Fredrik Lundh <fredrik at pythonware.com> writes: > >> it's revews like this that makes me wonder if releasing open source >> is >> a good idea: >> >> no egg - worst seen ever, remove it from pypi or provide an egg >> (jensens, 2009-10-05, 0 points) > > Heh. If harsh, uninformed responses make you wonder whether it's worth > doing free software, then you're in the wrong social philanthropy > movement. > > Make the software good quality, release it in the standard format (in > this case, a Distutils ‘sdist’ on PyPI), respond in a timely manner to > genuine requests for help. Eggs are certainly not a requirement, nor > is > responding to hostility like the above comment. > > If you *want* to respond, you can politely direct them to > <URL:http://docs.python.org/install/> where they can learn how to > install Python distributions — no mention of eggs at all. Package owners are not allowed to comment on their own PyPI packages, so responding to comments requires tracking down the person who left them and contacting them in some other way. Doug
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