Why do Pythoneers reinvent the wheel?

[Aahz]

In article <mailman.173.1126284529.509.python-list at python.org>,
Dave Brueck  <dave at pythonapocrypha.com> wrote:
>
>Many projects (Python-related or not) often seem to lack precisely
>what has helped Python itself evolve so well - a single person with
>decision power who is also trusted enough to make good decisions, such
>that when disagreements arise they don't typically end in the project
>being forked (the number of times people disagreed but continued to
>contribute to Python is far higher than the number of times they left
>to form Prothon, Ruby, and so on).
>
>In the end, domain-specific BDFLs and their projects just might have
>to buble to the top on their own, so maybe the best thing to do is
>find the project you think is the best and then begin contributing and
>promoting it.

You've got a point there -- reStructuredText seems to be succeeding
precisely in part because David Goodger is the BDFNow.
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The way to build large Python applications is to componentize and
loosely-couple the hell out of everything.