Best practise for passing time as arguments

Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Sat Oct 14 17:23:44 EDT 2017


On Sun, Oct 15, 2017 at 8:15 AM, Marko Rauhamaa <marko at pacujo.net> wrote:
> Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com>:
>
>> * You get into the habit of posting distro-specific (not just
>> OS-specific) commands to global mailing lists.
>
> And? I don't mind you posting the instructions for any other Linux
> distro. Chances are the translation into my distro is somewhat obvious.
> At least it would encourage me to find out.
>
> In no way would I be annoyed by equivalent instructions for alternative
> operating systems such as OSX or Windows (assuming Python and the
> relevant packages are available on those operating systems, which I have
> no knowledge of).

Or, you could just post a link to PyPI, which applies to all platforms
at once, and let people work out their own platform-specific
alternatives for themselves. Oh hey, that's what Thomas already did.

ChrisA



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