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[Python-Dev] PEP 426 is now the draft spec for distribution metadata 2.0

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Wed Feb 20 10:56:21 CET 2013 
Le Tue, 19 Feb 2013 19:54:21 -0500,
Fred Drake <fred at fdrake.net> a écrit :
> On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 6:19 PM, Donald Stufft
> <donald.stufft at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Let's not add anything to the stdlib till it has real world usage.
> > Doing otherwise is putting the cart before the horse.
> 
> I'd posit that anything successful will no longer need to be added to
> the standard
> library, to boot.  Packaging hasn't done well there.

If only "successful", agreed. However, packaging is a core part of the
Python experience, and as such should be provided in the stdlib.

Regards

Antoine.
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