Converting Python

[Richmond]

On 09/17/2013 08:41 PM, Mark Wieder wrote:
> Richmond-
>
> Tuesday, September 17, 2013, 10:15:05 AM, you wrote:
>
>> It probably is about time, after all the "Hoo-Ha" from RunRev anent Open
>> Source, and us stumping up our crinklies, and they being totally bl**dy
>> slow about fulfilling their Kickstarter Goals, that some sort of pressure
>> was brought to bear, and . . ;. how to start forking alternate versions
>> was made public and easy; even if for no other reason than that RunRev
>> could no longer go on rejecting ideas because it didn't give somebody a
>> warm fuzzy, and, instead putting this sort of thing to some sort of
>> Community vote . . .
> Ah. Open source does thankfully not mean governance by committee or by
> consensus. *Someone* has to make the decisions. The entire source for
> the engine and the IDE and all is available for anyone to grab, make
> changes as desired, and build their own version. The result, of
> course, also has to be open source - contributing code back to the
> main trunk for the common good is encouraged, but there's no guarantee
> of acceptance. But the build process is documented, and if you want to
> create LiveRichmond for special purposes that are not in the official
> build, you're welcome to do so. And feel free to incorporate my
> alternatelanguages branch when you do.
>

Humpf.

Well at the moment 'DeadRichmond' is nearer the mark as have
the "jolly headache" of timetabling as I gear up to the start of my EFL
( English as a Funny Language) school year on Monday.

Richmond.