[Python-Dev] PEP 408 -- Standard library preview package (original) (raw)

Michael Foord fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk
Fri Jan 27 16:37:44 CET 2012

On 27/01/2012 15:34, Benjamin Peterson wrote:

2012/1/27 Eli Bendersky<eliben at gmail.com>:

Criteria for "graduation" ------------------------- I think you also need "Criteria for being placed in preview". Do we just toss everything someone suggests in? And given that permanently deleting something from preview would be a big deal (deciding it didn't make the grade and should never graduate), the criteria shouldn't be much less strict than for adopting a package into the standard library.

i.e. once something gets into preview people are going to assume it will graduate at some point - preview is a place for apis to stabilise and mature, not a place for dubious libraries that we may or may not want in the standard library at some point.

Michael

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