[Python-Dev] Dropping externally maintained packages (Was:Please stop changing wsgiref on the trunk)

[A.M. Kuchling]

On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 11:25:21AM -0700, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> Have any instances of that actually happened? That would be a problem
> with *any* code in the Python library, not just external
> contributions, so I'm not sure why external contribions should be
> treated any differently here.

There have certainly been changes to xmlrpclib, such as support for
datetime objects and an allow_none flag to support handling None
values as a <nil/> element.  (I don't know if xmlrpclib is externally
released any longer, so maybe it doesn't count.)

--amk