[Python-Dev] Batteries Included?

Guido van Rossum guido@CNRI.Reston.VA.US
Fri, 17 Dec 1999 09:43:23 -0500


> Guido van Rossum wrote:
> > 
> > I like the batteries included approach, but I also feel resistence
> > against including stuff I cannot maintain. 
> > ...
> > This isn't rocket science.  Red Hat Python?  I'm all for it! :-)

MAL:
> I think we should wait for distutils to get up and running
> perfectly for everyone before taking such a step.

Fair enough -- but in the mean time, no more pushing for new modules
in the core distribution (distutils excluded).

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)