[Python-Dev] PEP 3148 ready for pronouncement

[Brian Quinlan]

On 23 May 2010, at 21:17, Lennart Regebro wrote:

> On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 12:15, Brian Quinlan <brian at sweetapp.com>  
> wrote:
>> You could make the same argument about any module in the stdlib.
>
> Yeah, and that's exactly what I did.
>
>> I doubt it. 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.
>
> Are you saying your proposed module is so simple that anyone can
> easily replicate it with just a couple of lines of code?

Parts of it, yes. Just like I can replace most operations in os.path  
and urlparse with a few lines of code.

>> The good news in this case is that the same API has been used  
>> successfully
>> in Java and C++ for years so it is unlikely that any major changes  
>> will need
>> to be made.
>
> Good. Then the time it takes to "mature" on PyPI would be very short.

How would you define "very short"? I've had the project on PyPI for  
about a year now:
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/futures3

Cheers,
Brian