Re: [Python-Dev] sharing stdlib across python implementations

2009-09-30 Thread Olemis Lang
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Olemis Lang wrote: > On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 9:43 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: >> Chris Withers simplistix.co.uk> writes: >>> [...] > > For instance, I have started something like that has been dome by the > FLiOOPS  project [1]_ Sorry for the missing reference an

Re: [Python-Dev] sharing stdlib across python implementations

2009-09-30 Thread Olemis Lang
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 9:43 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > Chris Withers simplistix.co.uk> writes: >> >> I'm on on stdlib-sig and I'm afraid I don't have the bandwidth to start >> on it, but I'd just like to throw in (yet again) that it would be great >> if the stdlib was actually a set of separate

Re: [Python-Dev] sharing stdlib across python implementations

2009-09-30 Thread Olemis Lang
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 9:28 AM, Chris Withers wrote: > Frank Wierzbicki wrote: >> >> Talk has started up again on the stdlib-sig list about finding a core >> stdlib + tests that can be shared by all implementations, potentially >> living apart from CPython. > [...] > > if the > stdlib was actuall

Re: [Python-Dev] sharing stdlib across python implementations

2009-09-30 Thread Chris Withers
Antoine Pitrou wrote: This sounds like a bad idea to me. Each Python release is tested and debugged as a whole. If you have a lot of possible combinations (module A version 1.1 with module B version 1.2, etc.), it becomes impossible for us to ensure proper QA for the whole and as a result the qua

Re: [Python-Dev] sharing stdlib across python implementations

2009-09-30 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Chris Withers simplistix.co.uk> writes: > > I'm on on stdlib-sig and I'm afraid I don't have the bandwidth to start > on it, but I'd just like to throw in (yet again) that it would be great > if the stdlib was actually a set of separate python packages with their > own version metadata so that

Re: [Python-Dev] sharing stdlib across python implementations

2009-09-30 Thread Chris Withers
Frank Wierzbicki wrote: Talk has started up again on the stdlib-sig list about finding a core stdlib + tests that can be shared by all implementations, potentially living apart from CPython. I have volunteered to put together a PEP on the subject, with Jessie Noller and Brett Canon are helping m