[python-committers] 2016 Python Language Summit: Can we get volunteers to talk about pathlib?

[Brett Cannon]

PEP has first draft done. Giving Koos and Stephen to comment on it before I
post it (I'll give them until Monday).

On Fri, Apr 29, 2016, 15:46 Larry Hastings <larry at hastings.org> wrote:

>
>
> This month there were over 350 emails in python-dev with the word
> "pathlib" in the title.  Yet, despite this massive online debate, nobody
> volunteered to present about pathlib at the language summit.
>
> Based on Jake Edge's summary of the conversation from LWN.net we've boiled
> down the debate to these six basic positions.
>
>    1. We should keep pathlib in the standard library.
>    2. We should remove pathlib from the standard library.
>    3. The Path object should inherit from str.
>    4. The Path object shouldn't inherit from str; it should continue to
>    be its own unrelated type.
>    5. We need a new "fspath" protocol.
>    6. We don't need an "fspath" protocol.
>
> We'd like some volunteers to speak on each of these positions.  Speakers
> should plan for a maximum of 2 minutes per position.  After the six
> positions are presented at the summit we'll open the floor for debate.
>
> You're encouraged to volunteer to present more than one!  For example, if
> you think we need the protocol, you're probably pro- keeping the object and
> anti-inherit from str.  (Brett, we're looking at *you.)*
>
> Please note, volunteers should be people who are *already invited to the
> summit*.  We can't invite additional people just for this--and we're
> basically full anyway.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> [BL]arry
>
> p.s. In case you're thinking "That's not fair!  I can't make it to the
> summit, I don't want to get left out of the decision!"  We don't propose to
> make any binding decisions at the summit--unless the BDFL makes
> pronouncements there of course.  This discussion is intended as a quick
> face-to-face debate on the topic, both to inform the delegates at the
> summit, and to possibly find a rough consensus.
>
> p.p.s. If we mischaracterized the debate, and the positions above aren't a
> good distillation, by all means follow up and make a counter-proposal!
> We're listening.
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