[stdlib-sig] Breaking out the stdlib

[Brett Cannon]

On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 12:53, Jesse Noller <jnoller at gmail.com> 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'm -1 even with a cleaner page. Google doesn't return results based
on what we want.

-Brett