It is because the file has a controversial coding style, with up to 25 lines of whitespace between classes, and includes functionality for eggs and some other stuff that was unwanted on top of the resources stuff that partly made its way into pkgutil.
I am really impressed with the file after seeing how easy it was to add PEP-345 and PEP-376 support to pkg_resources.py without having to present a different API to the user, and seeing how it provides a lot of what an installer needs especially being able to iterate over all the distributions in a particular folder, but I am glad it is not in the stdlib because I wouldn't have been able to do that if it was. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
