[Python-ideas] Defining an easily installable "Recommended baseline package set"

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Oct 31, 2017 4:42 AM, "Nick Coghlan" <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

On 31 October 2017 at 02:29, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:

> What's your proposed process to arrive at the list of recommended packages?
>

I'm thinking it makes the most sense to treat inclusion in the recommended
packages list as a possible outcome of proposals for standard library
inclusion, rather than being something we'd provide a way to propose
specifically.

We'd only use it in cases where a proposal would otherwise meet the
criteria for stdlib inclusion, but the logistics of actually doing so don't
work for some reason.

Running the initial 5 proposals through that filter:

* six: a cross-version compatibility layer clearly needs to be outside the
standard library
* setuptools: we want to update this in line with the PyPA interop specs,
not the Python language version
* cffi: updates may be needed for PyPA interop specs, Python implementation
updates or C language definition updates
* requests: updates are more likely to be driven by changes in network
protocols and client platform APIs than Python language changes
* regex: we don't want two regex engines in the stdlib, transparently
replacing _sre would be difficult, and _sre is still good enough for most
purposes


Some other packages that might meet these criteria, or at least be useful
for honing them:

- lxml
- numpy
- cryptography
- idna

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