Re: [Python-ideas] stdlib upgrades

On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 8:12 PM, geremy condra wrote:

On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 1:54 AM, Tarek Ziadé wrote:

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Hello,

That's not a new idea, but I'd like to throw it here again.

Some modules/packages in the stdlib are pretty isolated, which means that they could be upgraded with no harm, independently from the rest. For example the unittest package, or the email package.

What advantage do you see in this relative to, say, breaking off the stdlib or introducing a sumo addon?

Making it easier for package or module maintainers to take care of doing those smaller releases.

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Here's an idea:

1 - add a version number in each package or module of the stdlib that is potentially upgradable

As in, append it to the module name, or add an interface to modules to query their version?

probably by adding a __version__ in the package's __init__.py or in the module itself. Regards Tarek -- Tarek Ziadé | http://ziade.org