In a message of Tue, 15 Sep 2009 12:53:38 BST, Michael Foord writes: >1) Virtually no changes or improvements to the standard library at all - >nothing beyond maintaining compatibility with language changes. (Laura)
This isn't my position at all. What I think is that there are some modules in the standard library which have already reached that state, as part of their natural evolution. And these are great modules, which should never be removed, even if there are more modern ways to do things. I've not been opposed to the addition of new modules, though I do think that 'who is going to maintain this module in 10 years' is a question that needs an answer before we start sticking things into the standard library. And 'well, if nobody wants to maintain it, we can always drop it', is not an acceptable answer. There may be a need for a not-standard-but-we-love-you-anyway library full of things that people would have put in the standard library except that they strongly want the right to drop support for the thing as soon as it is no longer actively maintained. Laura _______________________________________________ stdlib-sig mailing list stdlib-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/stdlib-sig
