[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I think some people were hoping that instead of adding these things >> to >> the standard library, we would come up with a better package manager >> that would make adding these things to your local library much >> simpler. >> >> STeVe >> >> [1]http://www.python.org/dev/summary/2005-06-01_2005-06-15.html#reorganising-th e-standard-library-again > > A better package manager would be great but does not > replace having things in the core. Distributed code that > relies on external packages puts a significantly greater > burden on the user of the code.
Seconded. One thing I really fear about the otherwise great EasyInstall (and Python Eggs) is that we could forget about Let's not turn the Python standard library into the CPAN mess, where there are 5 different libraries for adding two numbers, so that it's then impossible to grab a random perl program and read it, without going through 150 different man pages you never saw before. I don't need 450 libraries to compute MD5, or to zip a file, or 140 different implementations of random numbers. There will always be external libraries for specific purposes, but I'd rather the standard library to stay focused on provided a possibly restricted set of common features with a decent interface/implementation. This said, I'd also like to see ElementTree in the standard library. We already have a SAX and a DOM, but we need a Pythonic XML library, and ElementTree is just perfect. -- Giovanni Bajo -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
