If I move things like FFT out of the core and make them separate packages, I am left with a choice: make them real packages, which means their usage would change, or structure the packages so that everything gets installed in the Python search path the way it does now.
The first choice is better for the future, walling everything off into namespaces properly. The second choice doesn't break any existing code.
There's a compromise: Change everything to a nice package structure, and provide a compatibility module for some transition period. Then everyone can adapt their code in a reasonable time. Ultimately the compatibility modules can disappear. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Konrad Hinsen | E-Mail: hinsen@cnrs-orleans.fr Centre de Biophysique Moleculaire (CNRS) | Tel.: +33-2.38.25.55.69 Rue Charles Sadron | Fax: +33-2.38.63.15.17 45071 Orleans Cedex 2 | Deutsch/Esperanto/English/ France | Nederlands/Francais -------------------------------------------------------------------------------