On Friday, October 13, 2006, at 08:26AM, Giovanni Bajo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Talin wrote: > >> Seriously, though, I am not proposing that there never be additions >> to the standard library -- instead, I simply want 'easy_install' to >> work 100% of the time, so that there's much less reason to add >> something to the standard library. > >-10000000. > >The standard library is not about easeness of installation. It is about having >a consistent fixed codebase to work with. I don't want to go Perl/CPAN, >where you have 3-4 alternatives to do thing A which will never interoperate >with whatever you chose among the 3-4 alternatives to do thing B. I don't want >to stop being able to read and fix programs because they use 15 libraries I >never heard of, with obscure APIs and terrible naming conventions. > >Let us keep our batteries, please. An alternative to a large standard library is a smaller one plus a set of 3th-party libraries that are advertised as being good libraries. That way "we" can point people that look for a good cross-platform GUI library to wxPython, without needing to ship it as part of the standard library (to use one example). Ronald _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
