On 6/12/06, Fredrik Lundh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Guido van Rossum wrote: > > > Maybe we should get serious about slimming down the core distribution > > and having a separate group of people maintain sumo bundles containing > > Python and lots of other stuff. > > there are already lots of people doing that (most Linux distributions add > stuff, directly > or indirectly; ActiveState and Enthought are doing that for windows, Nokia is > doing > that for the S60 platform, etc); the PEP 360 approach is an attempt to > emulate that > for the python.org distribution.
I'm not sure if it's a consequence of ActiveState's process, or of the current state of Python library packaging, or something else, but one big disadvantage I see to the ActiveState distribution is that it does not allow upgrading of parts of their distribution (specifically, I had problems because I couldn't upgrade pywin32 with a bugfix version, as it clashed with their bundled version - this was in the days when ActiveState releases were infrequent, and is probably much less of an issue now). Until that packaging issue is resolved (and again, maybe eggs provide the answer here, I'm not sure) externally packaged sumo bundles have some issues before they can fully replace the stdlib. I'd hate to distribute something that had to depend on "Enthought Python" because "ActiveState Python" was bundled with too old a release of pywin32 - or whatever. This is purely speculation (and fairly negative speculation at that!) but I'd advocate caution for a while yet. Maybe ActiveState or Enthought could provide some input on how/if sumo bundles can address the need to upgrade "parts" of the distribution? Paul. _______________________________________________ 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
