[Python-Dev] sharing stdlib across python implementations (original) (raw)

Chris Withers chris at simplistix.co.uk
Wed Sep 30 16:28:58 CEST 2009

Frank Wierzbicki wrote:

Talk has started up again on the stdlib-sig list about finding a core stdlib + tests that can be shared by all implementations, potentially living apart from CPython. I have volunteered to put together a PEP on the subject, with Jessie Noller and Brett Canon are helping me out. When I have something worth showing, I'll start the real PEP process.

I'm on on stdlib-sig and I'm afraid I don't have the bandwidth to start on it, but I'd just like to throw in (yet again) that it would be great if the stdlib was actually a set of separate python packages with their own version metadata so that packaging tools could manage them, and upgrade them independently of python packages when there are bug fixes. If that were the case, then pure python packages in the stdlib, of which there are many, really could be used across python implementations with no changes whatsoever...

The big changes I can see from here would be moving the tests to the packages from the central tests directory, and adding a setup.py file or some other form of metadata providion for each package. Not that big now that I've written it ;-)

cheers,

Chris

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