[Distutils] [Python-Dev] PEP 365 (Adding the pkg_resources module)

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 06:41 PM 3/19/2008 +0000, Paul Moore wrote:
>I may just go for a simple registry of implementation classes.

That's all simplegeneric *is*, in this context.  A way of having 
"simple registries", since more than one was needed there.


>  Sorry, but if you
>couldn't get sufficient agreement to simplegeneric to get it in a
>"proper" location,

It's a private implementation detail of pkgutil, not a stdlib 
feature, which is why no such agreement was requested or required.