[Python-3000] Proposal: No more standard library additions

[Talin]

Brett Cannon wrote:
> On 10/13/06, Talin <talin at acm.org> wrote:
> I think the negative response has been from the feeling that you want to
> strip the stdlib lib heavily.  I personally just want to ditch modules that
> have very little value to a large portion of our usebase (who uses
> sunaudiodev?).  But I do not want important modules to require some
> setuptools install to get at.  For marginalized stuff, fine.  And if 
> someone
> steps forward to have a "best of breed" listing that people pull from, then
> that's fine as well (but that won't be python-dev; see how long it took to
> get sqlite added).

'Stripping' the standard library is really only a side issue for me. I 
think it would be nice if it didn't get much *bigger* - but what I 
really want most of all is for easy_install (or something like it) to 
always work, with every package. Right now, its actually easier for me 
to hunt down a Windows installer or Mac .dmg for about 50% of the 
packages than it is to install them from the command line. When I 
download something, the last thing I want to spend time doing is 
debugging its setup.py.

-- Talin