On Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:00:04 -0500, Ian Bicking <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
Is that a job for a package manager program? or is it something that will be included within the standard python do you think? David _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
