[Python-3000] Proposal: No more standard library additions

[Greg Ewing]

Ivan Krstić wrote:

> That'd be nice. And on that note, for the love of confused masses
> everywhere, can we please change the name of easy_install to something
> Python-specific, such as 'egg' or 'py_install'?

I don't think that easy_install support is going to
become universal until its functionality is folded
into distutils and it becomes part of the standard
distribution. Expecting everyone to learn about and
support a particular 3rd party addition is just not
realistic.

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Greg