[Python-Dev] PEP 426 is now the draft spec for distribution metadata 2.0 (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Wed Feb 20 10:56:21 CET 2013

Le Tue, 19 Feb 2013 19:54:21 -0500, Fred Drake <fred at fdrake.net> a écrit :

On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 6:19 PM, Donald Stufft <donald.stufft at gmail.com> wrote: > Let's not add anything to the stdlib till it has real world usage. > Doing otherwise is putting the cart before the horse.

I'd posit that anything successful will no longer need to be added to the standard library, to boot. Packaging hasn't done well there.

If only "successful", agreed. However, packaging is a core part of the Python experience, and as such should be provided in the stdlib.

Regards

Antoine.

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