[Python-Dev] PEP 3148 ready for pronouncement (original) (raw)

Lennart Regebro regebro at gmail.com
Wed May 26 10:15:25 CEST 2010

On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 09:37, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:

It seems to me that if you've experienced the sort of culture that makes it a problem,

Ah, it's a culture problem.

In a heterogenous world, every action will benefit some and hurt some. Another arbitrary corporate ruleset could also mean you might be stuck on ancient python versions, and might not see a new module added to stdlib in 3.2 until 2015 or so. Some corporations go through a lot of trouble to prevent their employees from doing their job. Pythons core developers can not and should not let that hinder them from doing what is best for Python.

Decisions on inclusion in stdlib must be made on what benefits Python and it's users in general. Since even small mistakes in a stdlib module will hurt far more people than having to having the module mature on PyPI until the worst API issues and bugs are ironed out, it's clear to me that letting a module mature on PyPI before inclusion is the better policy here, although how long obviously must be decided on a case by case basis.

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