Brett Cannon wrote:
And honestly, if we don't go with this I'm with Georg's comment in another email of beginning to consider stripping the stdlib down to core libraries to help stop with the bitrot (sorry, Paul). If we can't attract new replacements for modules we can't ditch because of backwards compatibility I start to wonder if I should even care about improving the stdlib outside of core code required to make Python simply function.
Do we have any evidence of this alleged bitrot? I spend a lot of time on the comp.lang.python newsgroup and I see no evidence that people using Python believe the standard library is rotting from lack of attention.
I do see people having trouble with installing third party packages. I see that stripping back the standard library and forcing people to rely more on external libraries will hurt, rather than help, the experience they have with Python.
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