[Python-Dev] Sourceforge FAQ

Tim Peters tim.one@home.com
Sat, 17 Mar 2001 19:17:06 -0500


[Thomas Wouters]
> What would be the obvious thing ? Just check it in ? :-)

No:  as my signoff line implied, switch to Windows and tell Tim to deal with
it.  Works for everyone except me <wink>!  I was just tweaking you.  For a
patch on SF, it should be enough to just attach the new files and leave a
comment saying where they belong.

> Note that CVS's dinkytoy attitude did prompt several people to do the
> obvious thing: they started to rewrite it from scratch. Greg Stein
> jumped in with those people to help them out on the touch infrastructure
> decisions, which is why one of my *other* posts that mentioned CVS did a
> <wink GregS>
> ;)

Yup, *that* I picked up.

BTW, I'm always amused that Unix users never allow the lateness of their
rewrite-from-scratch boondoggles to convince them to do something obvious
instead.

wondering-how-many-times-someone-will-bite-ly y'rs  - tim