[stdlib-sig] Breaking out the stdlib

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Laura Creighton wrote:
> I am all for breaking up the stdlib logically, via tagging.  I am
> worried about physically breaking things up, though.  How are we
> going to guarantee that imports still work after the breakup?

I don't think CPython users will have to worry about this: the
main distribution will still ship with all batteries included.

However, Jython/IronPython/PyPy users will likely only see a subset.

Creating those should be easy using a bit of distutils. We'd only
need to put the tag information into some module that setup.py can
import to easily get at the tags and module names.

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