On 2008-09-09 21:49, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > Josiah Carlson <josiah.carlson <at> gmail.com> writes: >> While the wrapper for sqlite to offer >> a dbm-like interface is relatively untested (it does have testcases >> thanks to Skip), dealing with a couple-hundred (at most) line wrapper >> is far more reasonable for testing, verification, bugfixing, etc., >> than the wrappers for bsddb. > > There is theory and there is practice. There are lots of things that unittests > can't or often don't catch. I don't think it is reasonable at all to add a > completely new and untested storage backend at the last minute, while the > usual > advice for module inclusion is to first publish it on PyPI to get feedback and > estimate popularity. > > Another possibility is for the module to be clearly labeled as experimental.
Since when are we adding experimental modules to the stdlib ? Also, we're past beta3. This is not the time to add completely new modules to the stdlib - regardless of whether they are stable, experimental or something in between. Note that this doesn't mean to imply anything regarding the module implementation itself. It's a matter of quality control and assurance. Besides, what's so bad with downloading and installing a package from PyPI ? -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Sep 09 2008) >>> Python/Zope Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ :::: Try mxODBC.Zope.DA for Windows,Linux,Solaris,MacOSX for free ! :::: eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611 _______________________________________________ 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
