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diff --git a/docs/designdefense.rst b/docs/designdefense.rst index cebcf6218..5159e6ec7 100644 --- a/docs/designdefense.rst +++ b/docs/designdefense.rst @@ -627,22 +627,15 @@ over 2K lines of Python code, excluding tests. Pyramid Has Too Many Dependencies --------------------------------- -This is true. At the time of this writing (Pyramid 1.3), the total number of -Python package distributions that :app:`Pyramid` depends upon transitively is -if you use Python 3.2 or Python 2.7 is 10. If you use Python 2.6, Pyramid -will pull in 12 package distributions. This is a lot more than zero package -distribution dependencies: a metric which various Python microframeworks and -Django boast. - -However, Pyramid 1.2 relied on 15 packages under Python 2.7 and 17 packages -under Python 2.6, so we've made progress here. A port to Python 3 completed -in Pyramid 1.3 helped us shed a good number of dependencies by forcing us to -make better packaging decisions. - -In the future, we may also move templating system dependencies out of the -core and place them in add-on packages, to be included by developers instead -of by the framework. This would reduce the number of core dependencies by -about five, leaving us with only five remaining core dependencies. +Over time, we've made lots of progress on reducing the number of packaging +dependencies Pyramid has had. Pyramid 1.2 had 15 of them. Pyramid 1.3 and 1.4 +had 12 of them. The current release as of this writing, Pyramid 1.5, has +only 7. This number is unlikely to become any smaller. + +A port to Python 3 completed in Pyramid 1.3 helped us shed a good number of +dependencies by forcing us to make better packaging decisions. Removing +Chameleon and Mako templating system dependencies in the Pyramid core in 1.5 +let us shed most of the remainder of them. Pyramid "Cheats" To Obtain Speed -------------------------------- |