[Python-Dev] Adding library modules to the core (original) (raw)

Greg Ward gward@mems-exchange.org
Thu, 10 Aug 2000 08:38:02 -0400

[hmmm, this bounced 'cause the root partition on python.org was full... let's try again, shall we?]

On 07 August 2000, Eric S. Raymond said:

A few days ago I asked about the procedure for adding a module to the Python core library. I have a framework class for things like menu systems and symbolic debuggers I'd like to add.

Guido asked if this was similar to the TreeWidget class in IDLE. I investigated and discovered that it is not, and told him so. I am left with a couple of related questions:

Well, I just ploughed through this entire thread, and no one came up with an idea I've been toying with for a while: the Python Advanced Library.

This would be the place for well-known, useful, popular, tested, robust, stable, documented module collections that are just too big or too specialized to go in the core. Examples: PIL, mxDateTime, mxTextTools, mxODBC, ExtensionClass, ZODB, and anything else that I use in my daily work and wish that we didn't have maintain separate builds of. ;-)

Obviously this would be most useful as an RPM/Debian package/Windows installer/etc., so that non-developers could be told, "You need to install Python 1.6 and the Python Advanced Library 1.0 from ..." and that's it.

Thoughts? Candidates for admission? Proposed requirements for admission?

    Greg

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