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

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Mon Jan 30 19:29:44 CET 2012

Maybe that's another example of waiting too long for the perfect decision though. In the last ~12 months, ipaddr was downloaded at least 11,000 times from its home (http://code.google.com/p/ipaddr-py/downloads/list). There's been a fair amount of changes over that time and a new release was put out 10 days ago. What are the stats for the "competing" package?

--Guido

On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 10:19 AM, Scott Dial <scott+python-dev at scottdial.com> wrote:

On 1/29/2012 4:39 PM, Gregory P. Smith wrote:

An example of this working: ipaddr is ready to go in. It got the eyeballs and API modifications while still a pypi library as a result of the discussion around the time it was originally suggested as being added.  I or any other committers have simply not added it yet. This is wrong. PEP 3144 was not pronounced upon, so ipaddr is not just waiting for someone to commit it; it's waiting on consensus and pronouncement. PEP 3144 wasn't pronounced upon because there were significant disagreements about the design of the API proposed in the PEP. As it stands, I believe the authorship of ipaddr either decided that they were not going to compromise their module or lost interest. See Nick Coghlan's summary: http://mail.python.org/pipermail//python-ideas/2011-August/011305.html -- Scott Dial scott at scottdial.com

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