Maybe that's another example of waiting too long for the perfect decision though. In the last ~12 months, ipaddr was downloaded at least 11,000 times from its home (http://code.google.com/p/ipaddr-py/downloads/list). There's been a fair amount of changes over that time and a new release was put out 10 days ago. What are the stats for the "competing" package?
--Guido On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 10:19 AM, Scott Dial <scott+python-...@scottdial.com> wrote: > On 1/29/2012 4:39 PM, Gregory P. Smith wrote: >> An example of this working: ipaddr is ready to go in. It got the >> eyeballs and API modifications while still a pypi library as a result >> of the discussion around the time it was originally suggested as being >> added. I or any other committers have simply not added it yet. > > This is wrong. PEP 3144 was not pronounced upon, so ipaddr is not just > waiting for someone to commit it; it's waiting on consensus and > pronouncement. > > PEP 3144 wasn't pronounced upon because there were significant > disagreements about the design of the API proposed in the PEP. As it > stands, I believe the authorship of ipaddr either decided that they were > not going to compromise their module or lost interest. > > See Nick Coghlan's summary: > > http://mail.python.org/pipermail//python-ideas/2011-August/011305.html > > -- > Scott Dial > sc...@scottdial.com > _______________________________________________ > 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/guido%40python.org -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) _______________________________________________ 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