[stdlib-sig] Breaking out the stdlib

[Michael Foord]

Jesse Noller wrote:
> 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.
>
>   
It was recently discussed on the pydotorg mailing list - with someone 
even volunteering their time and submitting an example design that was 
(in my opinion) excellent. Nonetheless, the pydotorg mailing list is the 
correct one for website issues.

Michael


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