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[Terry Hancock]

Arthur wrote:
> I suggested to him a "fix" to his distribution- literaly 4 keystrokes
> involved - that would accomplish the reasonable purposes for which he
> might want to be doing what he is doing, and *not* overwrite an existing
> Python file. 

Four characters, eh?  It ought to take you maybe 10 minutes to create a 
patch file for his distribution, then. Which would be a whole lot less than 
you have wasting complaining about it.  If everybody who uses your package 
patches the dependent package, then it will become increasingly 
uncomfortable not to accept the patch.  It would be trivial to include this 
in your installation procedure.

If your patch doesn't catch on, then maybe he's right and you're wrong.

What I've been telling you is that you should  *use YOUR freedom* not *take 
away HIS freedom* to solve your problem. The package in question being Free 
software gives you all the freedom you need to solve the problem. There is 
simply no justification for trying to take away someone else's.

BTW, the package is apparently VPython, based on the conversation on 
edu-sig. It seems to me that making an advisory along with the patch would 
be a much more appropriate behavior.

Cheers,
Terry

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