On Thu, 29 Nov 2018 at 17:52, Nathaniel Smith <n...@pobox.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 29, 2018, 08:34 Antoine Pitrou <anto...@python.org wrote: >> >> >> Le 29/11/2018 à 17:25, Steve Dower a écrit : >> > >> > My experience is that the first group would benefit from a larger >> > _standard distribution_, which is not necessarily the same thing as a >> > larger stdlib. >> > >> > I'm firmly on the "smaller core, larger distribution" side of things, >> > where we as the core team take responsibility for the bare minimum >> > needed to be an effective language and split more functionality out to >> > individual libraries. >> >> We may ask ourselves if there is really a large difference between a >> "standard distribution" and a "standard library". The primary >> difference seems to be that the distribution is modular, while the >> stdlib is not. > > > Some differences that come to mind:
Ha. That arrived after I'd sent my other email. I'm not going to discuss these points case by case, except to say that there are some definite aspects of your interpretation of a "standard distribution" that are in conflict with what would work best for my use case.[1] Regardless of the details that we discuss here, it seems self-evident to me that any proposal to move away from the current "core+stdlib" distribution would be a significant change and would absolutely require a PEP, which would have to cover all of these trade-offs in detail. But until there is such a PEP, that clearly explains the precise variant of "standard distribution" model that is being proposed, I don't see much point in getting into details. There's simply too much likelihood of people talking past each other because of differing assumptions. Paul [1] Which, to reiterate, remains just one particular environment, plus a lot of extrapolation that there are "many other enterprise environments like mine"[2] [2] Oh, I really hope not - pity the poor souls who would work there :-) _______________________________________________ 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
