Re: Disgruntled would-be user

Robin Becker <[email protected]>:
>
> I suppose we could always send the disgruntled user off to 
> comp.lang.perl for a good roasting.
> 
> The python lists are generally pretty well behaved and polite.

Yeah, that's one of the things I've liked about the Python community
from the beginning.

[snip]
> As for anygui, I guess it hasn't been a success, but of the n 000
> open source projects how many are?

Not that many, I suppose (percentage-wise).

I guess this is basically the same as Laura has been saying, but I
have a similar philosophy about why academia is (and should be) the
way it is, with lots of people getting payed to play around with their
ideas, and with little control over what they're actually working
with. IMO, it has to be this way, because you must cast the net wide
to get at the gold nuggets (to mix some metaphors).

And, of course, it is possible for people to build on the unfinished
ideas of others, too. (For example, even though we never really got
Piddle off the ground, it did, IIRC, serve as some sort of a
starting-point for ReportLab?)

> Certainly trying to do an abstract gui framework is much harder than
> a specific one. Then add on all the back ends. Probably most
> pythoneers are too nice to be good project leaders.  I don't
> begrudge any of the effort nor would I in future. Keep trying :)

:)

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http://hetland.org   to live in the land of the free."  -- C. M. Burns


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