Brett Cannon wrote: > Michael has given me the hg transition/stdlib time slot at the language > summit this year. In regards to that I plan to lead a discussion on: > > * where we are at w/ the Hg transition (Dirkjan should be there and I did a > blog post on this topic recently: > http://sayspy.blogspot.com/2010/01/where-hg-transition-stands.html) > * argparse (PEP 389) > * brief mention on still wanting to break out the stdlib from CPython > * an official policy on extension modules? (i.e. must have a pure Python > implementation which can mean a ctypes implementation unless given an > explicit waiver) > > That's everything from a stdlib perspective. I have half-baked ideas, but > nothing concrete enough to bring up unless people really want to discuss > stuff like how to potentially standardize module deprecation warnings, etc. > > In terms of me personally, I do plan to bring up at some point during the > summit these points which don't squarely fit during my time slot: > > * an official unofficial policy on how new proposed features should come to > us (i.e. working code to python-ideas with a shell of a PEP that includes > abstract and motivation -> hashed out PEP to python-dev -> pronouncement) > * any changes needed to the issue tracker to help with the workflow? (stage > field seems like a failed experiment and we now have several effective > triage people who can help w/ guiding changes) > > If there is something missing from the stdlib discussion that you think > should be brought up at the summit let me know. And if there is something > here you want to discuss before the summit let me know and I can start a > separate thread on it.
Could you please put these things and the results up on the Python wiki ?! We're going to have a language summit at EuroPython this year as well and may want to continue/extend the discussion based on what you're doing at PyCon. Thanks, -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Jan 12 2010) >>> Python/Zope Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ ::: Try our new mxODBC.Connect Python Database Interface for free ! :::: eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611 http://www.egenix.com/company/contact/ _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com