On Sat, Jul 1, 2023 at 3:24 PM Dom Grigonis <dom.grigonis@gmail.com> wrote:
The less centralized it is, the less bad things can happen.
Sure, but in a way the less good things can happen as well :-(.
The OP of this thread is not alone -- folks want an authoritative source -- they may not get that, but a bunch of blogs by who knows who is about as far from that you can get. And isn't that what we have already? If you google a question like "what's a good python package for xxxxx?" you generally get hits. I usually do that before I look directly on PyPI, because PyPI has a lot of cruft and it's hard to sort out -- I'd rather start with at least *someone's* recommendation.
Only well researched, well defined, unambiguous problems, that depend on mature components of core python and are lacking in PyPI and stdlib.
Not easy to get consenson on that :-)
I don’t think I am in position to create a repo for this group, even deciding on a repo name is beyond my competence level here. And in the end, it’s just an idea, I am honestly not sure if it’s a good one.
I think it may be a good idea, though I'm pretty unclear on exactly what the idea is. I *think* It's a Python package review site, and if so, that could work. You'd need a modest sized core team to review entries, and then allow anyone to contribute a review -- the core team would "simply" decide if it's a decent review or not. LIke anything else, this would only work once there was some critical mass -- enough reviews that folks would notice it. In this particular case, having a robust bijective or more general
reversible dict implementation would have saved me a fair bit of time,
Way to bring it back on topic! Did you look on PyPI ? I looked really quickly and there's some packages there, maybe something good. -CHB -- Christopher Barker, PhD (Chris) Python Language Consulting - Teaching - Scientific Software Development - Desktop GUI and Web Development - wxPython, numpy, scipy, Cython