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

[Georg Brandl]

Greg Ewing wrote:
> 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.

The Python 3 timeframe should be reasonably wide to allow setuptools and
distutils becoming one and being integrated in the stdlib.

Georg