What's gives with Activestate?

[Mark Hammond]

"Don Tuttle" <tuttledon at hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:nHVP4.77747$cZ.175635 at typhoon.southeast.rr.com...
> I went to Activestate http://www.activestate.com to see how their Python
> development efforts are coming along but couldn't find any Python news
> anywhere!  In fact I had to dig for several minutes to even find the
word
> "Python" used on the web sight! It looks like a Perl only website.
>
> Message to Dick Hardt, "Stop jerking us around! Python is not the red
haired
> stepchild!  If you are really going to support Python, you have to be
> willing to talk about it in mixed company.  (That is, in front of Perl
> zealots)  At least make a web page that refers to Python, gives us some
> news, and has a few relevant links. Is that asking too much?"

You will need to be a little more patient.  I only officially started with
ActiveState a few days ago, and David Ascher is in the middle of moving,
and only recently been able to dedicate serious time on this.  We are
looking to hire, but it is a long and difficult process finding the right
people...

I agree the WebSite should change, but OTOH, we really need to _do_
something first!  Mentioning we "do Python", but not having anything
relevent would also be a problem...

So, be patient.  I promise Dick will see this, and I promise we are
working on things we can do - they just take time with our other
responsibilities...

Mark.
MarkH at ActiveState.com :-)