On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 3:38 AM, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote: > geremy condra wrote: > >> Well, I've just concluded a short conversation with Raymond Hettinger, >> and I think its fair to characterize him as being opposed to the idea >> at present. In addition to the popularity test, he's also noted that >> ideally a core CPython dev should be involved in the project. Putting >> the two together is, AFAICS, a death knell for any extant graph lib. >> >> Having said that, I'd still like to see how much common ground we >> could find among the existing libraries. IMHO, there's a lot more >> in common than there is different. > > The large number of current projects practically guarantees that none will > be popular enough, and perhaps than none get the usage needed to shake out a > broadly useful api. So any consolidation wuold be good.
While I agree, I think it's going to be extremely difficult to get any kind of buy in without a great deal of support from within python. Any devs willing to throw the time required into this? Geremy Condra -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
