On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 2:28 PM, Kevin Teague<[email protected]> wrote: > ... It would be nice if the python standard library was packaged up > into a set of distributions in some sensible way. These distributions > would still be pulled into main Python release so that they are > installed the same as they always have, but the [python-install]/lib/ > python/ directory would contain .egg-info files, so that it would be > possible to tell that the 'multiprocessing' distro is supplied by the > standard lib, and what version of the distro is included in a > particular Python release.
This is done for ElementTree (and maybe a couple other things?), but I agree, it would be great for every new addition to the standard library. It would be possible to create a script that did this for existing Python installations. Necessary in a sense, because 2.6.0 installations can't be changed (along with every other old installation), and dealing with older versions is the entire point of such an exercise. -- Ian Bicking | http://blog.ianbicking.org | http://topplabs.org/civichacker _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
