[Python-Dev] Paul Prescod: add Expat to 1.6
Skip Montanaro
skip@mojam.com (Skip Montanaro)
Thu, 1 Jul 1999 15:54:14 -0400 (EDT)
Skip> Amen to that. See Guido's note and my response regarding soundex
Skip> in the Doc-SIG. Perhaps you could get away with a very small core
Skip> distribution that only contained the stuff necessary to pull
Skip> everything else from the net via http or ftp...
Jack> I don't know whether this subject belongs on the python-dev list
Jack> (is there a separate distutils list?), but let's please be very
Jack> careful with this. The Perl people apparently think that their
Jack> auto-install stuff is so easy to use ...
I suppose I should have added a <0.5 wink> to my note. Still, knowing what
Guido does and doesn't feel comfortable with in the core distribution would
be a good start at seeing where we might like the core to wind up.
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