[Distutils] PEX at Twitter (re: PEX - Twitter's multi-platform executable archive format for Python)

[Donald Stufft]

On Sat, Feb 1, 2014, at 12:40 PM, Vinay Sajip wrote:
> On Sat, 1/2/14, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:
> 
> > I never said anything gets magically better on GitHub, I
> > told you the reason why *I* haven’t bothered to try it.
> 
> And I'm OK with that.
>  
> > Distlib is a significantly different case, it’s a library that is going to be
> > directly useful for a very small population of people. The vast majority
> > of people do not have any need or desire to directly work with distlib.
> 
> And your point is? This is distutils-sig, not python-list: it's the only
> reasonable place to try and solicit feedback for something like distlib.
> I'm not *complaining* that I haven't had much feedback - just stating it.
> To state the bleedin' obvious, I don't expect to have any say in how
> other people spend their time, and I hope I didn't give any contrary
> expectation.
> 
> > I can guarantee you that if distlib wasn’t released under an
> > OSS license that pip wouldn’t have used it
> 
> Sure, but I assume it wasn't used *just* because of the license. It
> has to be useful in some way too.

Sure, a useless tool/experiment is not made useful by a reasonable
license, but a useful tool/experiment can be made useless by an
unreasonable license.

distil isn't licensed so that I can even legally *use* it as far as I
understand
the law.

> 
> Regards,
> 
> Vinay Sajip