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

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Thu May 27 01:57:26 CEST 2010

On 27/05/10 09:11, geremy condra wrote:

Specialised distributions are another matter - I can see a "web stack" distribution comprising your TurboGears example (or should it be Django, or...?). Enthought essentially do that for a "Scientific Python" distribution. There could easily be others. 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). I'm not clear, you seem to be arguing that there's a market for many augmented python distributions but not one. Why not just have one that includes the best from each domain?

Because scientists, financial analysts, web designers, etc all have different needs.

A targeted distribution like Scientific Python will include nearly all the stuff a scientist is likely to need, but a financial analyst or web designer would find it lacking.

As Paul points out, the current size of the set of modules that are sufficiently general purpose and of high enough quality to qualify for python-dev's blessing, but wouldn't be suitable for inclusion in the normal standard library is fairly small. Particular when most developers are able to get sufficiently valuable modules from PyPI if they genuinely need them.

Cheers, Nick.

-- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan at gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia

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