Martin v. Löwis wrote:
In light of this, what I'd love to see (but sadly can't really help
with, and am not optimistic about happening) is for:
- python to grow a decent, cross platform, package management system
- the standard library to actually shrink to a point where only
libraries that are not released elsewhere are included
I'd be interested to know how many users of python also felt this way ;-)
I don't like the standard library to shrink. It's good that batteries
are included.
I have mixed feelings. It is great that the batteries are included, but
some batteries are showing their age or not maintained (who maintains
IDLE? - does the calendar module really warrant being in the standard
library? - imaplib is really not useful and IMAPClient which isn't in
the standard library is much better [1]).
If a library is well maintained then there seems to be little point in
moving it into the standard library as it may actually be harder to
maintain, and if a library has no active developers then do we really
want it in the standard library...
On the other hand there are some standard tools that a significant
portion of the community use (Python Imaging Library and the PyWin32
extensions for example) that aren't in the standard library.
I think other developers have similar mixed feelings, or at least there
are enough people on both sides of the fence that it is very hard to
make changes. Perhaps this is the way it should be.
Michael
[1] http://freshfoo.com/wiki/CodeIndex
Regards,
Martin
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