[Python-ideas] Moving development out of the standard library

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Wed, 9 Jun 2010 07:34:56 -0400
David Stanek <dstanek at dstanek.com> wrote:
> 
> I had a very similar thought. Why not have all the real development of
> those packages happen outside of the standard lib and just grab the
> latest stable version when cutting a new version of Python.

-1.  We have had too much trouble with externally-maintained modules
such as elementtree and json.  The Python SVN (or hg) tree should be the
primary place where development takes place.

Regards

Antoine.