[Python-Dev] Discussing the Great Library Reorganization

[Brett Cannon]

On 3/29/06, Dennis Allison <allison at shasta.stanford.edu> wrote:
>
> Not quite on the same topic, but perhaps it belong there.  I think most of
> use use both the stdlib and some selection of other libraries
> (MySQL-Python, ReportLab Toolkit, PyChart, and PyXML, for example).  These
> libraries have to be managed independently and installed independently.
> It would be nice if there were a central repository of "blessed"
> extensions to the standard library which could be selectively loaded when
> a new version of Python is installed.  There'd also need to be a tool for
> checking the extensions for new versions and upgrading since they would
> most likely not be maintained in lockstep with Python and its standard
> library.

I think we should discuss this, but not necessarily here.  Whether we
want a blessed Cheeseshop section and have anything from there be
automatically downloaded and installed as needed for the installed
interpreter for things that we feel are important (ala pysqlite) but
not necessarily in the core distribution should be discussed.  But
since I don't distribute individual modules often enough I am not in a
position to lead that discussion.

-Brett