[Python-Dev] PEP 3148 ready for pronouncement

[Brian Quinlan]

On May 23, 2010, at 8:43 PM, Robert Collins wrote:

> On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 10:15 PM, Brian Quinlan <brian at sweetapp.com>  
> wrote:
>
>>> Also, you can't fix bugs except by
>>> releasing new versions of Python. Therefore the API must be  
>>> completely
>>> stable, and the product virtually bugfree before it should be in
>>> stdlib. The best way of ensuring that is to release it as a separate
>>> module on PyPI, and let it stabilize for a couple of years.
>>
>> Yeah but that model isn't likely to work with this package.
>> Cheers,
>> Brian
>
> Forgive my ignorance, but why do you say that that model won't work
> with this package?

As I said in my last message:

"""Simple modules are unlikely to develop a following because it is  
too easy to partially replicate their functionality. urlparse and  
os.path are very useful modules but I doubt that they would have been  
successful on PyPI."""

Cheers,
Brian