Martin v. Löwis wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>Passing along from c.l.py. I think ElementTree is the poster child for >>best-of-breed code belonging in the standard distribution. > > > That's primarily for the author of the software to decide, at this > point. Fredrik Lundh would have to offer it for contribution first. > > I don't know what his current position is, but I think it is unlikely > that he will contribute it: in the past, he often indicated that he > a) dislikes the growth of the standard Python library, and > b) dislikes forking his own branch for inclusion in another package > (which would happen if he contributed one version for the > standard library, and would continue to maintain the code > outside of Python also).
Ooh. Well said. I agree with both of these points. :) +1 > That said, I agree that ElementTree would be a valuable addition > to the Python library, and has certainly passed the "collect feedback > in the real world" test. I hope that packaging progress will someday make it matter much less whether something is in the standard library. Jim -- Jim Fulton mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Python Powered! CTO (540) 361-1714 http://www.python.org Zope Corporation http://www.zope.com http://www.zope.org _______________________________________________ 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
