FOSStration
Couple of things I’m pretty sick of lately…
1. foobar
Sure, its an old tradition to use foo and bar as examples but it isn’t a substitute for an actual working example. I especially hate it when doc writers use it in place of a file or command or whatever that has only a handful of possible variations. Whenever I see this, I can’t help but think of that episode of the Simpsons where Homer joins the Stonecutters. I have visions of Bill Gates singing the song about keeping FOSS down with foo and bar… seriously.
2. Dear Python,
You beautiful language will never get the respect it deserves until you ‘fix’ distutils. I mean wtf…
Distutils will not recursively scan your source tree looking for any directory with an __init__.py file.
Why the hell not? How many great python apps would benefit from this time saver? Its very counter productive to encourage modularization of your code, then slap you with the tedious task of listing every single piece… I won’t bother with my other rants, but anyone who’s ever tried to use this for an app with more than one sub directory containing dependencies knows what a pain in the ass this can be. Maybe it likely wasn’t intended to do anything more that distribute small modules rather than complete apps, but come on…
More to come, I’m sure…
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