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Tue Nov 10 23:27:09 CET 2009 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2009-November/094007.html

Nick Coghlan schrieb:
> Martin v. Löwis wrote:
>> Nick Coghlan wrote:
>>> Ben Finney wrote:
>>>> anatoly techtonik <techtonik at gmail.com> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> Quite an interesting question recently popped up in pygame community
>>>>> that I'd like to ask to Python developers.
>>>> This forum is specifically about development *of* Python.
>>> Anatoly's question is actually a fair one for python-dev - we're the
>>> ones that *ship* Idle, so it is legitimate to ask our reasons for
>>> continuing to do so.
>> 
>> But he didn't - instead, he asked how many of us use it. Usage by
>> committers is not (or shouldn't be) a primary criterion for including
>> or not including something. Instead, usage in the community should be,
>> and python-dev is indeed the wrong place to estimate that.
> 
> I took it as being a somewhat relevant leading question. If the response
> had been "No, none of us use it" then the obvious follow-up question
> would be "Why do you ship something that you don't consider worth using?".

Quite simple: because we can't possibly ship Emacs.

cheers,
Georg

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