[Python-Dev] Directory for packages maintained outside the core (was Re: ElementTree - Why not part of the core?)

[Michael Hoffman]

[Hye-Shik Chang]
>> I think "contrib" is somewhat conventional for the purpose.

[Steve Holden]
> Indeed, but conventionally *all* code in the Python core is contributed,
> and I think we need a name that differentiates externally-maintained
> packages from the contributions that are integrated into the core and
> maintained as part of it.

The same could be said of a lot of other projects that use the
"contrib" convention. I have a much better idea of what "contrib"
means than "kits" or "external."
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Michael Hoffman <hoffman at ebi.ac.uk>
European Bioinformatics Institute