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

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Sat Jan 28 07:37:57 CET 2012

On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 11:48 AM, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:

Would it be acceptable then for a distro to disable preview or empty it out?

The thinking goes like this: if you would normally use an preview module because you can't get approval to download some random package from PyPI, well then your distro probably could or should provide it, so get it from them.  In fact, if the number of preview modules is kept low, and PyPI equivalents were a requirement, then a distro vendor could just ensure those PyPI versions are available as distro packages outside of the preview stdlib namespace (i.e. in their normal third-party namespace).  Then folks developing on that platform could just use the distro package and ignore preview. If that's acceptable, then maybe it should be explicitly so in the PEP.

I think that's an excellent idea - in that case, the distro vendor is taking over the due diligence responsibilities, which are the main point of preview.

Similarly, sumo distributions like ActiveState or Python(x, y) could choose to add the PyPI version.

Cheers, Nick.

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

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