[stdlib-sig] Breaking out the stdlib

[Brett Cannon]

On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 12:46, 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.
>
> 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)
>

This actually doesn't really require a discussion until someone
volunteers to spearhead it because it will happen, it's just a
question of who will lead it and whether they will wait for the
Mercurial transition.

-Brett