One thing I hate about not being able to keep as close an eye on the Python community is the lack of Ian Bicking:
Actually “merging” the two is probably unlikely. It’s the kind of weird political maneuver that open source projects don’t really do, unless they are part of weird “foundations” and have “managers” and stuff like that — it’s too much politics for programmers, and reeks of strategy and plans. You aren’t supposed to announce plans for your software, you are supposed to implement your plans and then announce them. If a merge happens, it should be more like a realization than a strategy.
If you have some spare time or are sick of reading blogs or whatever, I suggest lurking on Python related mailing lists, even if you don’t care about Python. The above is from Ian’s blog but little nuggets of insight like this are very common on the mailing lists. There’s so many smart folks over there…
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What surprised me most about Ian’s post is his mention of Mako as a templating language for Pylons. When I stopped following that project it seemed like Genshi would be the alternative to Myghty (as happened with TurboGears). And Mike Bayer’s Myghty is the Fastest Python Template Language. What Can it Do for Genshi? had given me hope that Genshi would get speedier, but Mako appears to be a complete reversal of course from the XML approach of Kid and Genshi.
— Joe on Wednesday, February 07, 2007 at 08:48 AM #
That reminds me of aspirations to put an archive permalink of every mailing list message within the mailing list post.
That would be a great way for these posts to percolate up into Python-URL! and other notable conversational mediums.
— DeanG on Wednesday, February 07, 2007 at 01:39 PM #
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