[Python-Dev] PEP 408 -- Standard library preview package (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Sat Jan 28 15:17:17 CET 2012

On Sat, 28 Jan 2012 00:09:13 -0500 Scott Dial <scott+python-dev at scottdial.com> wrote:

On 1/27/2012 8:48 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote: > The thinking goes like this: if you would normally use an preview module > because you can't get approval to download some random package from PyPI, well > then your distro probably could or should provide it, so get it from them.

That is my thought about the entire preview concept. Anything that would/should go into preview would be better off being packaged for a couple of key distros (e.g., Ubuntu/Fedora/Gentoo) where they would get better visibility than just being on PyPI and would be more flexible in terms of release schedule to allow API changes.

This is a red herring. First, not everyone uses a distro. There are almost a million monthly downloads of the Windows installers. Second, what a distro puts in their packages has nothing to do with considering a module for inclusion in the Python stdlib.

Besides, I don't understand how being packaged by a distro makes a difference. My distro has thousands of packages, many of them quite obscure.

OTOH, being shipped in the stdlib and visibly documented on python.org (in the stdlib docs, in the what's new, etc.) will make a difference.

Regards

Antoine.

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