"A.M. Kuchling" <amk at amk.ca> writes: > On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 10:16:01AM +0200, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: >> Maybe we should have this discussion on more general grounds: >> do we really want a fat Python distribution or should we focus >> more on making installation of third-party tools easier ? > > I keep casting glances at PEP 206 > (http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0206.html), Moshe's "Batteries > Included" PEP, and thinking it should be updated. PEP 206 suggests > something quite simple, a script that downloads a bunch of listed > packages and added them to the Python core to make a "sumo > distribution". > > The core once included an Extensions/ subdirectory for things that > were automatically built as part of Python's build process. Perhaps > we could add some extensibility -- e.g. Python's setup.py will > automatically check for subdirectories in Extensions/ and run their > setup.py scripts. It may be a crazy idea, but the more I switch platforms the more I have the impression that getting software via cvs (or svn, maybe) is the easiest thing. Couldn't pypi record the needed info for this? Thomas
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