[stdlib-sig] Breaking out the stdlib

[Brett Cannon]

On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 09:28, Laura Creighton <lac at openend.se> wrote:
> In a message of Tue, 15 Sep 2009 10:59:44 EDT, Jesse Noller writes:
>>On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 10:55 AM, Laura Creighton <lac at openend.se> 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?
>>>
>>> Laura
>>
>>What?
>>
>>We run the same unit tests we run today.
>
> I thought that people were proposing changing the directory structure
> of the stdlib.

People are getting ahead of themselves with the stdlib breakout
proposal. There will be a PEP explaining how we proposed to have it
work for CPython, what changes to the build will be, etc. But the
download for CPython will not change nor will a checkout in a major
way as we will simply require the forest extension or subrepos from
Mercurial.

For now, let's please refrain on worrying about this topic until there
is a proposal to discuss.

-Brett