Re: Emacs in build-depends of python2.1
On 26-Jun-2002 Florent Rougon wrote:
> "Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <shalehperry@attbi.com> wrote:
>
>> The problem is we now have a piece of a fairly common package using
>> script(s) in a language few understand. So if you get hit by a bus
>> someone WILL have to reverse engineer that script. This is the same
>
> Well, I guess you mean "py2texi.el's upstream maintainer" instead of
> "you". Has someone had problems contacting him? Does his script often
> break? The home page, <http://www.zamazal.org/software/python/py2texi/>,
> is mentioned at the beginning of py2texi.el.
>
hmm, sorry, was going on other people's comments here. I was not aware you
inherited this from the upstream. Please allow me to eat my foot (-:
>
> These are the implementation quirks. Now:
> - is it the only .el file used in the whole Python build?
> - are you sure the locally-and-not-installed python binary would be
> able to use modules like re, StringIO, etc.?
> - does someone actually use these info files, which are not supported
> by upstream and may be incorrect:
>
> "The result code is ugly and need not contain complete information
> from Python manuals. I apologize for my ignorance, especially
> ignorance to python.sty"
>
> due to the difficult nature of such a conversion?
I use the python info docs nearly every time I code in python and would miss
them a lot.
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