Giovanni Bajo wrote: > One thing I really fear about the otherwise great EasyInstall (and > Python Eggs) is that we could forget about...
... how important is to have a standard library. The fact that it's easy to install external modules shouldn't make us drop the standard library. A standard library means a great uniformity across programs. Whenever I open a Python program which uses ZipFile, or socket, or re, I can read it *immediately*. If it uses an external library / framework, I have to go study its manual and documentation. Proliferation of external libraries is good, but people should normally use the standard library modules for uniformity. In other words, I disagree with this message: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-June/054102.html My personal hope is that Python 3.0 will have a nice cleaned-up standard library with even more features than Python 2.x. As I said the in other message, let's not end up into the CPAN mess just because it's now technically easier! -- Giovanni Bajo -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
