[Python-Dev] new features for 2.3? (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido@python.org
Mon, 06 Jan 2003 21:20:34 -0500

> First of all, reST is going to be used a lot in Zope3.

Cool! Is there a website or a mailing list thread containing the master plan?

For what? Zope3 has its own Wiki:

http://dev.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Projects/ComponentArchitecture/FrontPage

For reST usage, AFAIK there isn't much except an email I saw today:

http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope3-dev/2003-January/004737.html

> Maybe it could become a standard library module?

That would be great. But could it be a bit premature? [...] Maybe I'm just being too protective of "my baby". Perhaps it's time for it to face the realities of the big bad world.

Maybe. Maybe I haven't been following reST closely enough. I do admit that I was a bit worried when I saw how rough the tools are (e.g. tools/html.py, which is the only thing I've used) and also when I found that at first they didn't work with Python 2.3 at all. OTOH, maybe this will be an encouragement for you and the other reST developers (are there any besides you? :-) to aim for a release beyond the CVS snapshot. Once you've released it may make more sense to add it to Python 2.3. (This is what we're aiming for with IDLEfork -- they just had their first alpha release.)

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)