[stdlib-sig] Breaking out the stdlib

[Brett Cannon]

On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 10:54, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
> Le mardi 15 septembre 2009 à 10:19 -0700, Brett Cannon a écrit :
>> (the crowd was rather enthusiastic
>> during Steven's lightning talk at PyCon 2010 about argparse).
>
> Is it a typo or a rhetorical trick? ;)
>

Typo. =) I meant 2009.

>> Nor do I
>> want Python's reputation tarnished, as Collin pointed out, by having
>> old modules sitting there in the standard library.
>
> Python's reputation will certainly get tarnished, however, if
> widely-used modules get deprecated and removed. We will already get some
> damage with all of the py3k changes. No need to worsen our case, IMO.
>

I don't think slow deprecations will do that. This happened with
md5/sha when we introduced hashlib and the Mercurial guys were the
only ones I ever heard complain.

> Regards
>
> Antoine.
>
>
> PS : Perhaps I'm the only one bothered by this, but it would be nice if
> people trimmed quoted messages a bit more. Having to scroll 3 pages
> before reading the actual reply is tedious.

Gmail color-codes so I simply scroll until I no longer see purple.

-Brett