[Python-Dev] Integrate BeautifulSoup into stdlib?

[Chris Withers]

Martin v. Löwis wrote:
>> In light of this, what I'd love to see (but sadly can't really help
>> with, and am not optimistic about happening) is for:
>>
>> - python to grow a decent, cross platform, package management system
>>
>> - the standard library to actually shrink to a point where only
>> libraries that are not released elsewhere are included
>>
>> I'd be interested to know how many users of python also felt this way ;-)
> 
> I don't like the standard library to shrink. It's good that batteries
> are included.

If a decent package management system *was* included, this wouldn't be 
an issue..

Chris

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