Can you write 1-2 paragraphs with the argument for each? On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 10:01 PM, Nathaniel Smith <n...@pobox.com> wrote:
> On Oct 31, 2017 4:42 AM, "Nick Coghlan" <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 31 October 2017 at 02:29, Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote: > >> What's your proposed process to arrive at the list of recommended >> packages? >> > > I'm thinking it makes the most sense to treat inclusion in the recommended > packages list as a possible outcome of proposals for standard library > inclusion, rather than being something we'd provide a way to propose > specifically. > > We'd only use it in cases where a proposal would otherwise meet the > criteria for stdlib inclusion, but the logistics of actually doing so don't > work for some reason. > > Running the initial 5 proposals through that filter: > > * six: a cross-version compatibility layer clearly needs to be outside the > standard library > * setuptools: we want to update this in line with the PyPA interop specs, > not the Python language version > * cffi: updates may be needed for PyPA interop specs, Python > implementation updates or C language definition updates > * requests: updates are more likely to be driven by changes in network > protocols and client platform APIs than Python language changes > * regex: we don't want two regex engines in the stdlib, transparently > replacing _sre would be difficult, and _sre is still good enough for most > purposes > > > Some other packages that might meet these criteria, or at least be useful > for honing them: > > - lxml > - numpy > - cryptography > - idna > > -n > -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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