On 29Nov2018 1020, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
It's just _hard_ and an awful lot of work, and apparently you're not volunteering to start it. So saying "we should make an extended distribution" if you're just waiting for others to do the job doesn't sound convincing to me, it just feels like you are derailing the discussion.
The problem with volunteering is that I'll immediately get told to just go off and do it as a separate thing, when the condition under which I will contribute to selecting and maintaining a set of bundled-but-not-stdlib packages is that we're actively trying to reduce the stdlib and hence the core maintenance burden. Without it being a core project, it's just more work with no benefit.
I've previously volunteered to move certain modules to their own PyPI packages and bundle them (omitting package names to avoid upsetting people again), and I've done various analyses of which modules can be moved out. I've also deliberately designed functionality into the Windows installer to be able to bundle and install arbitrary packages whenever we like (there's an example in https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/master/Tools/msi/bundle/packagegroups/packageinstall.wxs).
Plus I've been involved in packaging longer than I've been involved in core development. I find it highly embarrassing, but there are people out there who publicly credit me with "making it possible to use any packages at all on Windows". Please don't accuse me of throwing out ideas in this area without doing any work.
When the discussion is about getting Python modules onto people's machines, discussing ways to get Python modules onto people's machines is actually keeping it on topic.
Cheers, Steve _______________________________________________ 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
