-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Aug 26, 2007, at 12:10 AM, Neil Schemenauer wrote:
> Brett Cannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I don't like the former, but the latter is intriguing. If we could >> host large packages (e.g., email, sqlite, ctypes, etc.) on python.org >> by providing tracker, svn, and web space they could be developed and >> released on their own schedule. Then the Python release would then >> become a sumo release of these various packages. > > Hosting them on python.org is a separate decision. We should be > able to pull in packages that are hosted anywhere into the > "batteries included" distribution. > > It sounds like most people are supportive of this idea. All that's > needed is a little documentation outline the rules that packages > must confirm to and a little scripting. > > We could have another file in the distribution, similar to > Modules/Setup, say Modules/Batteries. :-) Something like: > > # ElementTree -- An XML API > http://effbot.org/downloads/elementtree.tar.gz > > # email -- An email and MIME handling package > http://www.python.org/downloads/email.tar.gz > > There could be a makefile target or script that downloads them and > unpacks them into the right places. /IF/ we do this, I would require that the packages be available on the cheese^H^H^H^H^H er, PyPI. The key thing is the version number since there will be at least 3 versions of email being maintained. - -Barry -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin) iQCVAwUBRtFskXEjvBPtnXfVAQLTxQQAhhmFOkjLUgMPl2Kt6q7yn1anZUhQlagb cxroOsXZ55tScn8KVnQ5oFbv1l5IFg+bzdEZZcNyEsCptFs9WuKqYUB7/hAJ+mF+ Cw/zQUGoZUT2ZyB19pIfb9At1tp6sf2vLZraXztsHh6jib2uQVc0kCKR3HA+Tjef XQKdyUTjVW4= =bM9q -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ 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
