The base plugins group packages which are answer to one or more criteria:
- Other packages depend of them
- useful tools
- commonly used and C/C++ libraries
Pure python packages :
- cdecimal - Fast drop-in replacement for decimal.py.
- colorma - Cross-platform colored terminal text.
- configparser - Brings the updated configparser from Python 3.2+ to Python 2.7.
- coverage - Code coverage measurement for Python.
- Curses - an extension based on the PDCurses library.
- decorator - Better living through Python with decorators.
- enum34 - Python 3.4 Enum backported to 3.3, 3.2, 3.1, 2.7, 2.6, 2.5, and 2.4.
- funcsigs - Python function signatures from PEP362 for Python 2.6, 2.7 and 3.2+.
- futures - Backport of the concurrent.futures package from Python 3.2.
- mock - A Python Mocking and Patching Library for Testing.
- pep8 - Python style guide checker.
- py - library with cross-python path, ini-parsing, io, code, log facilities.
- py.test - simple powerful testing with Python.
- python-dateutil - Extensions to the standard Python datetime module.
- pytz - World timezone definitions, modern and historical.
- singledispatch - brings functools.singledispatch from Python 3.4 to Python 2.6-3.3.
- six - Python 2 and 3 compatibility utilities.
The purpose here is to eliminate the rabid duplication of the binary libraries between popular python packages.
Currently consists of :
- zlib
- bzip2
- libpng
- szip
- expat
- iconv
- libtiff
- freetype
- lcms
- lcms2
- TurboJpeg (jpeg8 level)
- webp