[Distutils] zc.buildout and "System Python"

[Jim Fulton]

On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 12:26 PM, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:
> On Oct 28, 2010, at 12:08 PM, Jim Fulton wrote:
>
>>BTW, I really don't care about certain types of innovation (e.g. file
>>locations, wide unicode) as long as I as a developer don't feel them.
>>It occurs to me that it would be useful if there was a definition of a
>>standard Python that provided a baseline that developers could count
>>on. Today, the closest thing to a standard is the Python distribution.
>>I suppose that doesn't have to be the standard.  Of course, defining
>>such a standard might be really painful, especially via email. It might
>>be a good PyCon discussion/sprint topic.
>
> We should do this.

Let's do it! :)

...

> But maybe there's still something we can do here.  We should put this on the
> agenda for Pycon.

Not sure what that involves.

> Would the language summit be an appropriate forum (at least
> as a start)?

I think it would be a good idea to at least mention it there.
I'm not sure all of the interested people will be there.

Jim

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Jim Fulton