[Python-Dev] Bazaar branches available (again) on Launchpad (original) (raw)

David Lyon david.lyon at pythontest.org
Wed Jan 20 06:10:15 CET 2010

"David Lyon" <david.lyon at pythontest.org> writes:

Being honest, if wonderful libraries like Sphinx and Mercurial and Git and BZR can't make it into the stdlib, then there is no hope for even newer code to get in there. Those are applications, not libraries. Applications don't belong in the standard library.

Haha funny..

Well using that logic, distutils is an application..

Are you saying that distutils should be removed? That is most certainly an application.

Lets not get too pedantic here. Mercurial and bzr have a built in API that can be called in a library like way. It's true they also have a command line interface in the same way that distutils does.

I'm not saying anything negative about distutils. Given that Tarek has an upcoming Pycon presentation where the program talks about a distutils revamp.

I'm hoping that he can find some young 20 yr olds and put a cool web interface on that thing. Given that there are empty sprints at pycon. It couldn't hurt to throw that challenge out. Anyway, we'll see..

David

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