[Python-Dev] provisional status for asyncio

[Gustavo Carneiro]

On 28 August 2015 at 17:11, Yury Selivanov <yselivanov.ml at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 2015-08-28 11:44 AM, Brett Cannon wrote:
>
>>
>>     Unfortunately, separating it from the standard library is something
>>     that I don't think we can do so late in the 3.5 release candidates
>>     process.
>>
>>
>> Ultimately it's Larry's call, but I don't see why we couldn't. If we were
>> talking about something as low-level as the urllib package then I would
>> agree, but beyond its own tests is there anything in the stdlib that
>> depends on asyncio?
>>
>
> As Victor already replied, asyncio is pretty self contained, and
> nothing in the stdlib depends on it.
>
> If we really can remove it, let's consider it.


-1 for removing it.  It is way too late for 3.5 IMHO.  You should have
proposed it at least 6 months ago.  This feels too rushed.

+1 for changing sys.path to allow pip-installed asyncio to override the
stdlib version (for 3.6).  Some developers complain that NodeJS's packaging
system is better that Python, maybe this lack of flexibility is one of the
reasons...


-- 
Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
Gambit Research
"The universe is always one step beyond logic." -- Frank Herbert
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