> On Jan 20, 2010, at 10:16 AM, Barry wrote: >> So does that mean we could update the stdlib for a given >> python version using this ? > > In a sense, yes (if I understand your question correctly).
Yeah, it just needs an implementation. > The one thing I am unsure about, mostly because I have not tried it, is > whether your Bazaar branch can be used to commit directly back to the > Python Subversion master branches. I /think/ the answer is yes, > assuming of course that you have permission to do so... Well I'm too Senior and my stuff is too forward looking to qualify for that just yet. I'd be happy to see bzr and mercurial and git all made it together into the stdlib for python 3. That would give a superb updating mechanism for python that would propel python well beyond the dinosaur badlands of CPAN and other languages. I was actually reading from (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_%28programming_language%29): "Rather than requiring all desired functionality to be built into the language's core, Python was designed to be highly extensible. .. .. This design of a small core language with a large standard library and an easily extensible interpreter was intended by Van Rossum from the very start because of his frustrations with ABC (which espoused the opposite mindset).[5]" To me, the source code control systems seem to be fully in tune with the original design of python. That is, to be able to easily pull external libraries in. I think what has changed is that the mechanisms now (the SCMs) are way more highly developed than before. Apart from that though, after reading the full wikipedia article I'm left with the distinct impression that things are still pretty much the same (in that python design philosophy is advanced), just that the landscape (of external C libraries) has changed. Now all the libraries are external (on the internet) and all externally managed. So with just a tiny amount of work, imho we could pull it all together to bring python 3 *back* to being that cool tool that it once was (not saying it isn't now). Were you offering me an experimental branch somewhere for python 3 SCM integration ? David _______________________________________________ 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
