Design-by-Committee

[Chris Barker]

Grant Griffin wrote:


>  But in cases where
> something is high quality, widely used, and stable, making third-party
> stuff "standard" might be a very good idea.  (The most obvious example
> here is Numerical Python.)

hear hear!!

I have seen many examples of third party code that made a point of NOT
using Numeric because it is not in the standard library, and the
author(s) did not want to creat more hard to fulfill dependencies. And
you can't even download Numeric from the same place as Python. these we
situations in which Numeric made loads of sense: wxPython, when plotting
LOTS of numbers, etc.

Let's hope Numeric gets into the standard library soon.

-Chris


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