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

M.-A. Lemburg mal@lemburg.com
Thu, 10 Aug 2000 16:28:34 +0200

Moshe Zadka wrote:

On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Greg Ward wrote: > Sounds worth a PEP to me; I think it should be distinct from (and in > competition with!) PEP 206. That's sort of why I wanted to keep this off Python-Dev: I don't think so (I don't really want competing PEPs), I'd rather we hashed out our differences in private and come up with a unified PEP to save everyone on Python-Dev a lot of time. So let's keep the conversation off python-dev until we either reach a consensus or agree to disagree.

Just a side note: As I recall Guido is not willing to include all these third party tools to the core distribution, but rather to a SUMO Python distribution, which then includes Python + all those nice goodies available to the Python Community.

Maintaining this SUMO distribution should, IMHO, be left to a commercial entity like e.g. ActiveState or BeOpen to insure quality and robustness -- this is not an easy job, believe me. I've tried something like this before: it was called Python PowerTools and should still be available at:

http://starship.python.net/crew/lemburg/PowerTools-0.2.zip

I never got far, though, due to the complexity of getting all that Good Stuff under one umbrella.

Perhaps you ought to retarget you PEP206, Moshe ?!

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