On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 09:14:09PM +0200, Elmo M?ntynen wrote:
> Why would you want to sort by the number, it has no real semantic value?
> And, I'm not restricting in the srictest sense, I'm only saying that
> people shouldn't use arbitrarily long sequenses of digits, but for now
> only 3(should we use 4?). I don't think we'll run out numbers, but if it
> comes to that, we're way beyond this kind manual task tracking, don't
> you think. Or are you so impressed with this that you want to extend
> this to everything possible=). Btw. there are only about 350 peps.
Let's not get caught up in policy when there is nothing to policyicate.
Python can have PEPs because:
- it is being developed, and thus can be enhanced
- there are thousands of people who want it to do different things
- it is sufficiently large to require a formal process of tracking
proposals
Unununium satisifies none of these. Allocating numbers and fishing for
comments on the mailing list isn't going to make people start coding,
it's just going to make the project look like a bunch of people who talk
a lot but don't get anything done. We already fit half that description;
let's not make it worse.
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