-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 02/19/2013 09:37 PM, Paul Moore wrote: > On 20 February 2013 00:54, Fred Drake <f...@fdrake.net> wrote: >> I'd posit that anything successful will no longer need to be added >> to the standard library, to boot. Packaging hasn't done well >> there. > > distlib may be the exception, though. Packaging tools are somewhat > unique because of the chicken and egg issue involved in having a > packaging tool with external dependencies - who installs your > dependencies for you? So enabling technology (library code to perform > packaging-related tasks, particularly in support of standardised > formats) could be better available from the stdlib.
The big blocker there is that users can't rely on having it in the stdlib until after they drop Python < 3.4 (assuming accelearated absorption) or even 3.5. Tres. - -- =================================================================== Tres Seaver +1 540-429-0999 tsea...@palladion.com Palladion Software "Excellence by Design" http://palladion.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with undefined - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlEkTAsACgkQ+gerLs4ltQ6VBgCePncI4cX7a8NEN6lj98CVBdAE UTUAnA+6zo8Zjmp6T4n0uL804PnHHvZ8 =OT8w -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ 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
