Q: The `print' statement over Unicode

[John J. Lee]

Jeremy Bowers <jerf at jerf.org> writes:

> On Sat, 07 May 2005 12:10:46 -0400, François Pinard wrote:
> 
> > [Martin von Löwis]
> > 
> >> François Pinard wrote:
> >>
> >> > Am I looking in the wrong places, or else, should not the standard
> >> > documentation more handily explain such things?
> > 
> >> It should, but, alas, it doesn't. Contributions are welcome.
> > 
> > My contributions are not that welcome.  If they were, the core team
> > would not try forcing me into using robots and bug trackers! :-)
> 
> I'm not sure that the smiley completely de-fangs this comment.
> Have you every tried managing a project even a tenth the size of Python
> *without* those tools? If you had any idea of the kind of continuous
[...]

I don't mean to put words into François' mouth, but IIRC he managed,
for example, GNU tar for some time and, while using some kind of
tracking system "under the covers", didn't impose it on his users.

IMVHO, that was very nice of him, but I'd be reluctant to attempt to
enforce this way of working on a hard-working and competent
contributor to an open source project to which I'm not a core
contributor myself.


John