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[Python-Dev] Dropping externally maintained packages (Was:Please stop changing wsgiref on the trunk)

A.M. Kuchling amk at amk.ca
Mon Jun 12 21:55:48 CEST 2006 
On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 11:25:21AM -0700, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> Have any instances of that actually happened? That would be a problem
> with *any* code in the Python library, not just external
> contributions, so I'm not sure why external contribions should be
> treated any differently here.

There have certainly been changes to xmlrpclib, such as support for
datetime objects and an allow_none flag to support handling None
values as a <nil/> element.  (I don't know if xmlrpclib is externally
released any longer, so maybe it doesn't count.)

--amk
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