[stdlib-sig] Breaking out the stdlib

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Frank Wierzbicki wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 1:07 PM, Michael Foord <michael at voidspace.org.uk> wrote:
>> The particular motivation is to make it easier for other implementations to
>> reuse the standard library. It was something discussed (with the maintainers
>> of some of these implementations) at the Python Language Summit.
> Speaking for Jython, it would be very helpful if the stdlib was
> considered a separate entity in a more official way than it is now.
> Jython already uses the stdlib this way (sort of), we have an
> svn:externals entry that just pulls the stdlib down.  Today, we
> maintain a largish number of the modules with local patches that
> replace some modules as part of our build process.  It would be nicer
> if we could do less patching at build time.  BTW - I don't mean that I
> expect others to do this work for us, a couple of us have commit
> rights to help this along.

Why don't you try to get those changes into the stdlib ?

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