Re: OT: Roland Puntaier / "getmail6" drama

Stefan Krah <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> There is no empathy for original software authors in the Python "community".
> "getmail6" is also name squatting on PyPI under the name "getmail":

Wow, I didn't know that.  Another dick move.  It's not even "getmail6", he's
just flat-out squatting on getmail.

> I found it very easy to submit a patch to you.

That's good to hear.  I've never had *any* complaints about this in
twenty-plus years of getmail.  Roland is the first.

> People are also underestimating the 2to3 trickery. getmail has to deal
> with unicode, file system encoding, ssl and all things that make a robust
> conversion difficult.

Thank you.  Too many people think it's just a matter of running 2to3.  Even
just "run 2to3 and fix breakages until it runs" is not a viable strategy.

Charles
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