<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 12:29 PM, Guido van Rossum <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:guido@python.org" target="_blank">guido@python.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">What's your proposed process to arrive at the list of recommended packages? And is it really just going to be a list of names, or is there going to be some documentation (about the vetting, not about the contents of the packages) for each name?<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div class="h5"></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><font color="#500050">As I see it, the bootstrap would be a requirements.txt (requirements.pip) with the packages that more experienced developers prefer to use over stdlib, pinned to package versions known to work well with the CPython release.</font></div><div class="gmail_extra"><font color="#500050"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_extra"><font color="#500050">I think this is a great idea, specially if it's an easy opt-in. </font></div><div class="gmail_extra"><font color="#500050"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_extra"><font color="#500050">For example, sometimes I go into a programming niche for a few years, and I'd very much appreciate a curated list of packages when I move to another niche. A pay-forward kind of thing.</font></div><div class="gmail_extra"><font color="#500050"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_extra"><font color="#500050">The downside to the idea is that the list of packages will need a curator (which could be <a href="http://python.org">python.org</a>). </font></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><font color="#500050"><br></font></div></div>