Gustavo Niemeyer wrote: > > > moving the main trunk and main development over to the Python CVS is > > > another thing, entirely. > > > > (as I've said many times before, both the user community and the developer > > community would benefit if the core standard library were made smaller, and > > more externally maintained packages were included in the standard releases) > > An issue to consider about this is that maintainers (not talking about > you or anyone else specifically) have different concepts of stability, > and while it may seem perfectly ok to refactor external modules between > two stable releases, doing so in the standard library would spread fear > and "python is so untrustful" feelings.
I think you're seriously underestimating the competence of other developers, and seriously overestimating the competence of the python core developers. in my experience, any external library that supports more than one Python version on more than one platform is likely to be more robust than code in the core. add the multilevel volunteer approach de- described by Steven (with the right infrastructure, things like that just appear), and you get more competent manpower contributing to the standard distribution than you can get in any other way. </F> _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
