[Python-Dev] Maybe, just maybe, pathlib doesn't belong.

[Alexander Walters]

In reviewing the ongoing arguments about how to make pathlib better, 
there have been circular arguments about if it is even broken, if it 
should support bytes, if there should be a path protocol that all 
functions that touch the filesystem should use, if that protocol should 
support bytes, how that protocol should be open or closed to allow third 
party modules to act as paths, etc., etc.

If there is headway being made, I do not see it.

I don't think we can come to an agreement that will make anyone happy, 
or have any effect on the adoption of the pathlib module in the standard 
library.  Maybe, just maybe, since there is an ecosystem of third party 
modules already doing this job (and arguably doing it much better than 
pathlib, and for more supported versions of python than any future 
version of pathlib will), it should be dropped from the standard library 
and left on pypi as a third party module.