Packaging a proprietary Python library for multiple OSs

[Robert Kern]

On 2013-12-05 17:50, Zero Piraeus wrote:
> :
>
> On Thu, Dec 05, 2013 at 09:12:30AM -0800, Roy Smith wrote:
>> I keep hearing that I should use gmane as a superior interface.  Well,
>> I tried that.  I went to http://dir.gmane.org/search.php, where it
>> asks me to search for a newsgroup.  I type in "comp.lang.python", and
>> it tells me, "No matching groups".  So, that seems pretty broken to
>> me.
>
> That's not entirely fair - Gmane presents mailing lists as newsgroups,
> not vice versa, so it doesn't know that python-list at python.org is
> connected to comp.lang.python (or that comp.lang.python even exists).
>
> A search for the mailing list from the front page works just fine:
>
>    http://gmane.org/find.php?list=python-list%40python.org

Right. GMane is an NNTP service, but it is not part of the USENET network. 
comp.lang.python is a USENET newsgroup and requires a true USENET server (not 
just an NNTP server) to access.

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
  that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
  an underlying truth."
   -- Umberto Eco