PEP has first draft done. Giving Koos and Stephen to comment on it before I post it (I'll give them until Monday).
On Fri, Apr 29, 2016, 15:46 Larry Hastings <la...@hastings.org> wrote: > > > This month there were over 350 emails in python-dev with the word > "pathlib" in the title. Yet, despite this massive online debate, nobody > volunteered to present about pathlib at the language summit. > > Based on Jake Edge's summary of the conversation from LWN.net we've boiled > down the debate to these six basic positions. > > 1. We should keep pathlib in the standard library. > 2. We should remove pathlib from the standard library. > 3. The Path object should inherit from str. > 4. The Path object shouldn't inherit from str; it should continue to > be its own unrelated type. > 5. We need a new "fspath" protocol. > 6. We don't need an "fspath" protocol. > > We'd like some volunteers to speak on each of these positions. Speakers > should plan for a maximum of 2 minutes per position. After the six > positions are presented at the summit we'll open the floor for debate. > > You're encouraged to volunteer to present more than one! For example, if > you think we need the protocol, you're probably pro- keeping the object and > anti-inherit from str. (Brett, we're looking at *you.)* > > Please note, volunteers should be people who are *already invited to the > summit*. We can't invite additional people just for this--and we're > basically full anyway. > > > Thanks, > > > [BL]arry > > p.s. In case you're thinking "That's not fair! I can't make it to the > summit, I don't want to get left out of the decision!" We don't propose to > make any binding decisions at the summit--unless the BDFL makes > pronouncements there of course. This discussion is intended as a quick > face-to-face debate on the topic, both to inform the delegates at the > summit, and to possibly find a rough consensus. > > p.p.s. If we mischaracterized the debate, and the positions above aren't a > good distillation, by all means follow up and make a counter-proposal! > We're listening. > _______________________________________________ > python-committers mailing list > python-committers@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-committers > Code of Conduct: https://www.python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
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