On Thu, 29 Nov 2018 10:05:47 -0500 "Benjamin Peterson" <benja...@python.org> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 29, 2018, at 08:45, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > > > > Le 29/11/2018 à 15:36, Benjamin Peterson a écrit : > > >> > > >> I'd like to point the discussion is asymmetric here. > > >> > > >> On the one hand, people who don't have access to PyPI would _really_ > > >> benefit from a larger stdlib with more batteries included. > > >> > > >> On the other hand, people who have access to PyPI _don't_ benefit from > > >> having a slim stdlib. There's nothing virtuous or advantageous about > > >> having _less_ batteries included. Python doesn't become magically > > >> faster or more powerful by including less in its standard > > >> distribution: the best it does is make the distribution slightly > > >> smaller. > > >> > > >> So there's really one bunch of people arguing for practical benefits, > > >> and another bunch of people arguing for mostly aesthetical or > > >> philosophical reasons. > > > > > > I don't think it's asymmetric. People have raised several practical > > > problems with a large stdlib in this thread. These include: > > > - The evelopment of stdlib modules slows to the rate of the Python > > > release schedule. > > > > Can you explain why that would be the case? As a matter of fact, the > > Python release schedule seems to remain largely the same even though we > > accumulate more stdlib modules and functionality. > > The problem is the length of the Python release schedule. It means, in the > extreme case, that stdlib modifications won't see the light of day for 2 > years (feature freeze + 1.5 year release schedule). And that's only if people > update Python immediately after a release. PyPI modules can evolve much more > rapidly.
Ah, I realize I had misread as "the development of stdlib modules slows the rate of the Python release schedule" (instead of "slows *to* the rate"). Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
