On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 12:41:58PM -0000, redrad...@gmail.com wrote:

> As long as I cannot update version of standard library package 
> separately from CPython version - No, they are not separate creatures 
> ;)


Why would you want to? That just sounds like adding extra complexity and 
pain for no benefit.

Instead of requirements:

- requires Python 3.5 or better

you have requirements:

- Python 3.5 or better
- math 2.7 or better
- sys 2.1 or better
- glob 5.9 or better
- etc

This does not seem like an improvement to me. I like going to 
StackOverflow, and if I read a solution or recipe that says "tested with 
Python 3.8" I know it will run in 3.8, without having to guess what the 
minimum requirements for each module are.

Some of the Linux distros already split the stdlib into pieces. This is 
a real pain, especially for beginners. The process changes from:

    $ dnf install python3
    # or apt-get or whatever package manager you use

and everything documented at python.org Just Works straight out of the 
box, to a much more annoying process:

    $ dnf install python3

and then you have mysterious ImportErrors because some modules aren't 
installed, and you have to try to work out how to install them, and 
that's not an easy task:

    $ dnf search python3 | wc -l
    3511



-- 
Steven
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