[stdlib-sig] Breaking out the stdlib

[Leonardo Santagada]

On Sep 14, 2009, at 4:19 PM, Jesse Noller wrote:

> How is there any harm in offering 3 downloads? The obvious thing is to
> click on the big "get some pythons on" button which gets what we know
> as python today.

Confusing the hell out of users. Right now there is a lot more links  
on the download page than it should (why offer both a tar.gz and a bz2  
on the main download page?). Another improvement would be to divide it  
by operating system with an icon (and name, just the icon or the name  
is not enough to most people). But this is of topic.

IMHO we should divide this dicussion in 3:

1) Breaking the repo to help all the other python implementations.  
This means moving tests and let the python implementations start  
classifying which tests are platform dependent or not. (I would vote  
+1 if I could)

2) Having different python versions with various levels of  
completeness, which could be broken in two:
   a) only on the repository
   b) offer different distributions on the main python site (-1)

3) What should the stdlib be (should be discussed elsewhere)

I think the topic discussed on pycon 2009 (from all the accounts I  
have heard) is only about item 1, and it should not matter much to the  
other ones (well maybe 2a can change things a little).

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Leonardo Santagada
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