[stdlib-sig] Breaking out the stdlib

[Jesse Noller]

On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 3:46 PM, Leonardo Santagada <santagada at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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.

The python.org website should be redesigned, completely. But then
again, that's something for another thread ;) It's also not a
fundamental issue for this thread.


> 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)

Modulo a cleaner, simpler download page: Is it still -1?

I plan on bringing up the website design elsewhere, as that was
another thing at pycon 2009 which was brought up, but failed to escape
the atmosphere.

jesse