[Python-ideas] Changing the name of __pycache__

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 15:43:06 +1300
Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> On 10/02/11 11:44, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> 
> > Changing that will require a patch and advocacy from folks that are
> > actually *fans* of sourceless distribution, as opposed to merely
> > tolerating them as an arguably necessary evil.
> 
> Labelling sourceless distributions as a "necessary evil" comes
> across to me as a political stance, not based on any technical
> argument.

The poor debuggability of compiled-only code is certainly a technical
argument (and a rather strong one).

You might not like the fact that a technical argument can be used to
inform political opinions, but that doesn't make that argument any less
true.

Regards

Antoine.