[Python-Dev] Raising objections

[Greg Ewing]

Anthony Baxter wrote:

>>http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html

 From what I remember, he didn't actually say that you
should never rewrite anything, but that if you do, you
need to be prepared for a very long period of time
when nothing new is working, and that *if you are a
commercial company* this is a bad idea.

But Python is not dependent on getting new features
out the door before its competitors in order to
survive, so this doesn't really apply. It doesn't
matter if people have to make do with the old
distutils for a while until something better is
available.

--
Greg