On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 11:40:37PM +0100, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > And we can't really blame them, most of these stuffs aren't their job > anyway. We can blame them when they don't listen, though. I'm using some python modules where upstream outright tells users they shouldn't use the packaged versions of their modules and should just do everything using a random latest version downloaded inside a virtualenv. This basically means that if you want to use stable packaged versions of such modules, with security support and proper integration with the rest of a (not necessarily all-python) distribution, you're cut out of the ecosystem. You'll have to stick to the well-known core, and stay away from all the fancy new things. Actually, most of the fancy new things are unstable loads of shiny bollocks and the few that actually work and are useful for something, eventually make it into the stable, well-known core, so this isn't a bad thing at all. Still, I wish they'd listen. Ciao, Enrico -- GPG key: 4096R/E7AD5568 2009-05-08 Enrico Zini <enrico@enricozini.org>
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