Thoughts on some stdlib modules

[Robert Kern]

Skip Montanaro wrote:
>     >> I guess the other thing to compare to is something like SciPy, which
>     >> is a kind of specialized distribution of Python for scientific
>     >> applications.
> 
>     Robert> No, Scipy is just a (large) package. Enthon, on the other hand,
>     Robert> is just such a distribution.
> 
> I'm sorry, you lost me there.  What's the difference between a large package
> and a distribution?

Scipy is not a "distribution of Python." It's just a single package, a 
single library; you still need the interpreter. Enthon for Windows is a 
distribution of the Python interpreter and a number of packages. 
Currently, MacEnthon is just a collection of packages because I can rely 
on the presence of Python 2.3.0 on all OSX 10.3 machines. In the future, 
I will be releasing a version for 2.4.x and that will include the 
interpreter.

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