[Python-Dev] PEP 411: Provisional packages in the Python standard library (original) (raw)

Eric Snow ericsnowcurrently at gmail.com
Fri Feb 10 23:38:58 CET 2012

On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 1:13 PM, Jim J. Jewett <jimjjewett at gmail.com> wrote:

Eli Bendersky wrote (in http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2012-February/116393.html ):

A package will be marked provisional by including the following paragraph as a note at the top of its documentation page: I really would like some marker available from within Python itself. Use cases: (1)  During development, the documentation I normally read first is whatever results from import module; help(module), or possibly dir(module). (2)  At BigCorp, there were scheduled times to move as much as possible to the current (or current-1) version. Regardless of policy, full regression test suites don't generally exist.  If Python were viewed as part of the infrastructure (rather than as part of a specific application), or if I were responsible for maintaining an internal application built on python, that would be the time to upgrade python -- and I would want an easy way to figure out which applications and libraries I should concentrate on for testing.

+1 on both

-eric

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