[Python-Dev] Sumo (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Thu May 27 00:51:19 CEST 2010

Le mercredi 26 mai 2010 à 23:41 +0100, Paul Moore a écrit :

But a general purpose "Sumo" distribution on top of the stdlib? I'm skeptical. (Personally, my "essential extras" are pywin32, cxOracle and that's about it - futures might make it if it doesn't get into the stdlib, but that's about all).

Well, unless you are short on megabytes or on download bandwidth, would you really care to get some modules you never use? (there are probably some in the stdlib too!)

I'm genuinely struggling to see how a Sumo distribution ever comes into being under your proposal. There's no evidence that anyone wants it (otherwise it would have been created by now!!) and until it exists, it's not a plausible "place" to put modules that don't make it into the stdlib.

I don't think all package owners dream of putting their software in the stdlib. It's likely some don't care, and it's likely some would actively refuse it (because e.g. they don't want to lose control). So the suggestion is not to somehow salvage packages which "don't make it into the stdlib", but to build a broader distribution of packages without necessarily having people bow to the constraints of stdlib inclusion.

Of course, I agree with you that someone has to do it if they want it to happen :-)

Regards

Antoine.

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