[OT] Weaknesses of distro package managers - was Re: Python 2 to 3 conversion - embrace the pain

[Mark Lawrence]

On 20/03/2015 14:59, Mario Figueiredo wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Mar 2015 02:40:26 -0700 (PDT), wxjmfauth at gmail.com wrote:
>>
>> Python 3.x is excellent.
>> Probably, the best language to show a
>> poor and buggy Unicode implementation
>> (Character Encoding Model).
>>
>> When I think other computer languages or
>> Unicode related tools are all doing wrong.
>> That's terrible.
>>
>
> Ah. So you are on the Python 3 unicode support sucks bandwagon too?
>
> Bet you guys have a whole lot of fun there. Rave parties, trashing,
> getting mad at something. Sounds fun.
>
> Over here, on the Python 3 unicode support is just fine bandwagon, we
> aren't so lucky. Things are just going smoothly, so they don't let us
> party. We spend most of our time writting applications that don't
> crash at runtime on the user hands because Python 3 is not permissive
> and does force us to write well-formed encoding protocols.
>
> Many times I though jumping to your side. Like I said, it sounds more
> fun. But really, wife and kids need to eat.
>

Please don't feed the RUE.

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence