[Python-Dev] Attention Bazaar mirror users

[Tres Seaver]

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Martin v. Löwis wrote:
>> I didn't say "from source", I said "from a VCS checkout".  If using a
>> *specific* recent official release of a core tool is bureaucratically
>> infeasible, it would IMO be very unusual if you're allowed to checkout
>> and build arbitrary versions of Python, rather than using a version
>> provided by your bureaucrats.
>>
>> The number of people whose job is *specifically* developing Python, or
>> developing code that depends on bleeding-edge Python, in such an
>> environment is surely very small.
> 
> This completely contradicts with my experience. In a university
> environment, students regularly check out software from the source
> repository, modify it, and build it, just to learn something by doing
> so. Yet, in such an environment, they have little control over their
> systems - they cannot install software themselves, but have to ask
> the university bureaucrats (which often reject such wishes, unless
> they come from a teacher - and often even in that case).
> 
> There is no problem with people building their own versions of Python,
> though - they do so in their home directories, and OS security
> mechanisms prevent them from doing harm to other users.

Wouldn't such hypothetical core Python developers be able to build and
run their own local copy of bzr, using that self-compiled Python?  Let's
not strain at gnats and swallow camels here.


Tres.
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