On Jan 7, 2008 5:50 AM, Barry Warsaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 6, 2008, at 1:35 PM, Jim Fulton wrote: > > > Really, I'd like to see a much smaller standard library. IMO, pickle > > isn't essential enough to be part of the standard library and I'd be > > happy to see pickle become a separate project. I'd prefer to see most > > of the Python 2 standard library become separate projects. > > I still think this idea has merit, if only because some packages > simply have a different lifecycle than the core language. There are > advantages and disadvantages to packaging with the core. > > I think /if/ we do this, then we need really solid mechanisms for > installing, uninstalling, and updating packages, for querying what's > installed, for making assertions about requirements, etc. Basically > everything that a good OS package manager does. PyPI/Cheeseshop/ > setuptools/easy_install is the closest thing we have, and it's great, > but it definitely needs polish. > > I think it would also be worthwhile getting some OS distro folks > involved. I talked with some of the Ubuntu packaging people at our > company's recent all-hands meeting and they had a very interesting > perspective on the whole setuptools approach and how it interacts (or > doesn't) with the distro packagers.
Noooo...! Please start a new thread! Please! -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
