[Python-Dev] ElementTree - Why not part of the core? (fwd)

Steve Holden steve at holdenweb.com
Mon Dec 12 13:39:08 CET 2005


Hye-Shik Chang wrote:
> On 12/12/05, Fredrik Lundh <fredrik at pythonware.com> wrote:
> 
>>Fredrik Lundh wrote:
>>
>>
>>>just one question: where do you want [to put] the "vendor" checkins ?  I'm using
>>>a flat "kits" namespace in my own repositories, e.g.
>>
>>>anyone has a better name?
>>
>>anyone ?
>>
> 
> 
> I think "contrib" is somewhat conventional for the purpose.
> 
Indeed, but conventionally *all* code in the Python core is contributed, 
and I think we need a name that differentiates externally-maintained 
packages from the contributions that are integrated into the core and 
maintained as part of it.

regards
  Steve
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