[Python-3000] Removing email package until it's fixed

[Barry Warsaw]

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On Aug 26, 2007, at 12:10 AM, Neil Schemenauer wrote:

> Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
>> I don't like the former, but the latter is intriguing.  If we could
>> host large packages (e.g., email, sqlite, ctypes, etc.) on python.org
>> by providing tracker, svn, and web space they could be developed and
>> released on their own schedule.  Then the Python release would then
>> become a sumo release of these various packages.
>
> Hosting them on python.org is a separate decision.  We should be
> able to pull in packages that are hosted anywhere into the
> "batteries included" distribution.
>
> It sounds like most people are supportive of this idea. All that's
> needed is a little documentation outline the rules that packages
> must confirm to and a little scripting.
>
> We could have another file in the distribution, similar to
> Modules/Setup, say Modules/Batteries. :-)  Something like:
>
>     # ElementTree -- An XML API
>     http://effbot.org/downloads/elementtree.tar.gz
>
>     # email -- An email and MIME handling package
>     http://www.python.org/downloads/email.tar.gz
>
> There could be a makefile target or script that downloads them and
> unpacks them into the right places.

/IF/ we do this, I would require that the packages be available on  
the cheese^H^H^H^H^H er, PyPI.  The key thing is the version number  
since there will be at least 3 versions of email being maintained.

- -Barry

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