[Python-Dev] Batteries Included?

[Greg Stein]

On Thu, 16 Dec 1999, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> Guido van Rossum wrote:
> > I like the batteries included approach, but I also feel resistence
> > against including stuff I cannot maintain. 

This is an interesting comment, and is similar to the Apache sentiment.
Nothing gets added to the standard distribution unless somebody in the
Group is willing to maintain it. It provides a good mechanism for keeping
the module set to a reasonable size and a set that can/will actually be
maintained.

> > ...
> > This isn't rocket science.  Red Hat Python?  I'm all for it! :-)
> 
> I think we should wait for distutils to get up and running
> perfectly for everyone before taking such a step.

You can also operate on the assumption that it will be done by the time
1.6 is ready to be released. In other words: do the work (distutils and
minimizing the release) in parallel, rather than in sequence.

I would also think that a large distro isn't going to be assembled with
distutils. Somebody will sit down, pull all the components together, and
make a big release.

However, I do see the distutils as being needed for the people who grab
the minimal distro. They need it to grab add'l packages.

Cheers,
-g

-- 
Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/