On Sat, 1 Jul 2023 at 18:43, Stephen J. Turnbull <turnbull.stephen...@u.tsukuba.ac.jp> wrote: > > Chris Angelico writes: > > On Sat, 1 Jul 2023 at 01:15, Christopher Barker > > <python...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Totally different topic, but I do think that a "curated" package > > > repo would be helpful -- there is a lot of cruft on PyPi :-( > > Sounds like a "standard library". I understand the difference, but > Like Chris A I'm dubious about whether there's really a lane for it, > or whether like bike lanes in Japan you'd just find a lot of illegal > parking in it. ;-)
Ouch :) Though I wish more cities could do what Amsterdam's been doing. Especially the city I live in. Would love to see some walkable areas and real viable bike lanes here. The main difference between standard library and "blessed package" would be the update cycle. Standard library modules can only be updated when Python itself is updated; a blessed package (say, for instance, 'requests') can update any time it wants to. > But if somebody's going to put in effort to review PyPI, I'd really > rather see them go after "typo squatters". Most are probably just > clout chasers, but we know that some are malware, far more dangerous > than merely "cruft". They're definitely working on that. > Chris Angelico writes: > > > Instead, what I'd like to see is: Personal, individual blogs, > > recommending packages that the author knows about and can give > > genuine advice about. > > I think this is a good way to go, expecially if reviewers link to each > other, building community as well as providing package reviews. For > example, while my needs are limited enough that I haven't actually > tried any of his stuff, I've found Simon Willison's (datasette.io) > tweetqs interesting. (datasette itself, of course, and he's tweeted a > lot about LLMs recently too, but here I'm referring to his more random > tweets about utilities he's discovered or created.) > > There are also some idiosyncratic curated package collections (the > FLUFL packages, etc), as well as a lot of frameworks (Django, the Zope > components, lazr) that seem to sprout utility packages regularly. I'm > sure there's a lane if somebody wants to go around blogging about all > the "stuff" they see. Yeah. All we need is for people to start ranting on the internet. Can't be THAT hard right? ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/HI63YITPF3D7WGMWIQNYDQZVJRX4N7C2/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
