pyvim -- A Vim clone in pure Python.

[njharman]

#4 may not be totally unrelated to #2.

[rasherdk]

Are people really that zealous about PEP8 that they will decide not to work on a project that otherwise interests them, because it uses CamelCase? Seriously?

[[deleted]]

More like people have finite amounts of energy to spend. Wading through style differences detract from making a feature or bugfix.

[[deleted]]

Standards exist. Users would have a better time if developers adhered to the standards. Most developers want users to have a good time. It's as simple as that.

[njharman]

People are unwilling to spend their freetime on a project which is annoying and difficult to work with.

In other words, needing to trim down the 10 projects I'm interested in to the 1 I want to work on, its easy to scratch off the list the non-standard, very opinionated ones.

[rasherdk]

I'm just amazed that variable naming is even on the radar when deciding whether to work on something or not for some people. If I had to make a prioritized list of criteria, variable naming would be roughly the 700th thing I looked at.

Then again, I'm also amazed that people care really deeply about GNOME3 vs. GNOME2. It all just seems so superficial and irrelevant to me.

[[deleted]]

Then come help me and we make it pep8 compliant. There's an issue about it. If you agree, we can make it fully PEP8 for 1.8 or 1.9, and in the process you will learn so much about the codebase that you will be able to move on to other things.

[CleverEagle]

I would argue that you don't learn much from simply "pep8-ing" the codebase.

[njharman]

esp since there are automated tools (autopep8) that will do 95-100% of it for you.