Greg Stein wrote: > > On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: > > <IMO> > > Since this is the first time a Python Consortium member is > > pushing development, I think we can learn a lot here. For one, > > it should be clear that money doesn't buy everything, OTOH, > > we cannot put the whole thing at risk just because > > of some minor disagreement that cannot be solved between the > > parties. The standard solution for the latter should be a > > customized Python interpreter. > > </IMO> > > hehe... funny you mention this. Go read the Consortium docs. Last time > that I read them, there are no "parties" to reach consensus. *Every* > technical decision regarding the Python language falls to the Technical > Director (Guido, of course). I looked. I found nothing that can override > the T.D.'s decisions and no way to force a particular decision. > > Guido is still the Benevolent Dictator :-) Sure, but have you considered the option of a member simply bailing out ? HP could always stop funding Unicode integration. That wouldn't help us either... > Cheers, > -g > > p.s. yes, there is always the caveat that "sure, Guido has final say" but > "Al can fire him at will for being too stubborn" :-) ... but hey, Guido's > title does have the word Benevolent in it, so things are cool... -- Marc-Andre Lemburg ______________________________________________________________________ Y2000: 49 days left Business: http://www.lemburg.com/ Python Pages: http://www.lemburg.com/python/
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