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

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Wed Sep 30 16:43:07 CEST 2009

Chris Withers <chris simplistix.co.uk> writes:

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.

This sounds like a bad idea to me. Each Python release is tested and debugged as a whole. If you have a lot of possible combinations (module A version 1.1 with module B version 1.2, etc.), it becomes impossible for us to ensure proper QA for the whole and as a result the quality might become lower, rather than higher.

(of course, if we rigorously enforce APIs and preserve compatibility, this might not be a real issue; but our compatibility story is a bit irregular, IMHO)

Regards

Antoine.

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