[Python-Dev] Sumo

[Nick Coghlan]

On 27/05/10 09:11, geremy condra wrote:
>> Specialised distributions are another matter - I can see a "web stack"
>> distribution comprising your TurboGears example (or should it be
>> Django, or...?). Enthought essentially do that for a "Scientific
>> Python" distribution. There could easily be others. But a general
>> purpose "Sumo" distribution *on top of* the stdlib? I'm skeptical.
>> (Personally, my "essential extras" are pywin32, cx_Oracle and that's
>> about it - futures might make it if it doesn't get into the stdlib,
>> but that's about all).
>
> I'm not clear, you seem to be arguing that there's a market for many
> augmented python distributions but not one. Why not just have one
> that includes the best from each domain?

Because scientists, financial analysts, web designers, etc all have 
different needs.

A targeted distribution like Scientific Python will include nearly all 
the stuff a scientist is likely to need, but a financial analyst or web 
designer would find it lacking.

As Paul points out, the current size of the set of modules that are 
sufficiently general purpose and of high enough quality to qualify for 
python-dev's blessing, but wouldn't be suitable for inclusion in the 
normal standard library is fairly small. Particular when most developers 
are able to get sufficiently valuable modules from PyPI if they 
genuinely need them.

Cheers,
Nick.

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