On 27/05/10 09:11, geremy condra wrote:
Specialised distributions are another matter - I can see a "web stack"
distribution comprising your TurboGears example (or should it be
Django, or...?). Enthought essentially do that for a "Scientific
Python" distribution. There could easily be others. But a general
purpose "Sumo" distribution *on top of* the stdlib? I'm skeptical.
(Personally, my "essential extras" are pywin32, cx_Oracle and that's
about it - futures might make it if it doesn't get into the stdlib,
but that's about all).
I'm not clear, you seem to be arguing that there's a market for many
augmented python distributions but not one. Why not just have one
that includes the best from each domain?
Because scientists, financial analysts, web designers, etc all have
different needs.
A targeted distribution like Scientific Python will include nearly all
the stuff a scientist is likely to need, but a financial analyst or web
designer would find it lacking.
As Paul points out, the current size of the set of modules that are
sufficiently general purpose and of high enough quality to qualify for
python-dev's blessing, but wouldn't be suitable for inclusion in the
normal standard library is fairly small. Particular when most developers
are able to get sufficiently valuable modules from PyPI if they
genuinely need them.
Cheers,
Nick.
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Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia
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