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

Stephen J. Turnbull stephen at xemacs.org
Thu May 27 19:52:34 CEST 2010

Michael Foord writes:

To my mind one of the most important benefits of a "sumo" style distribution is not just that it easily provides a whole bunch of useful modules - but that it highlights which modules are the community blessed "best of breed".

That has several problems.

(1) There is a lot of overlap with the mission of the stdlib, and I think confusion over roles would be quite costly.

(2) As the stdlib demonstrates, picking winners is expensive. I greatly doubt that running two such processes is worthwhile.

(3) Very often there is no best of breed.

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