Re: [Python-Dev] sharing stdlib across python implementations

2009-09-30 Thread Chris Withers
Frank Wierzbicki wrote: Talk has started up again on the stdlib-sig list about finding a core stdlib + tests that can be shared by all implementations, potentially living apart from CPython. I have volunteered to put together a PEP on the subject, with Jessie Noller and Brett Canon are helping

Re: [Python-Dev] sharing stdlib across python implementations

2009-09-30 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Chris Withers chris at simplistix.co.uk writes: I'm on on stdlib-sig and I'm afraid I don't have the bandwidth to start on it, but I'd just like to throw in (yet again) that it would be great if the stdlib was actually a set of separate python packages with their own version metadata so

Re: [Python-Dev] sharing stdlib across python implementations

2009-09-30 Thread Chris Withers
Antoine Pitrou wrote: This sounds like a bad idea to me. Each Python release is tested and debugged as a whole. If you have a lot of possible combinations (module A version 1.1 with module B version 1.2, etc.), it becomes impossible for us to ensure proper QA for the whole and as a result the

Re: [Python-Dev] sharing stdlib across python implementations

2009-09-30 Thread Olemis Lang
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 9:28 AM, Chris Withers ch...@simplistix.co.uk wrote: Frank Wierzbicki wrote: Talk has started up again on the stdlib-sig list about finding a core stdlib + tests that can be shared by all implementations, potentially living apart from CPython. [...] if the stdlib

Re: [Python-Dev] sharing stdlib across python implementations

2009-09-30 Thread Olemis Lang
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 9:43 AM, Antoine Pitrou solip...@pitrou.net wrote: Chris Withers chris at simplistix.co.uk writes: I'm on on stdlib-sig and I'm afraid I don't have the bandwidth to start on it, but I'd just like to throw in (yet again) that it would be great if the stdlib was actually

Re: [Python-Dev] sharing stdlib across python implementations

2009-09-30 Thread Olemis Lang
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Olemis Lang ole...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 9:43 AM, Antoine Pitrou solip...@pitrou.net wrote: Chris Withers chris at simplistix.co.uk writes: [...] For instance, I have started something like that has been dome by the FLiOOPS  project [1]_