On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 09:55:00AM -0500, Guido van Rossum wrote:
A while back, I pulled the "demo" importers out of imputil.py. I think those should be added into Demo/imputil/.
OK. Go ahead and create that directory and add the demo importers.
Will do.
It would also be Goodness to include JimA's zipimporter. Where would that go?
Same place I'd hope? Can you check that it works?
Yup and yup.
We're dependent on you volunteers to maintain relatively non-core things like this -- I don't want to extend the feature freeze to Demo/, but I also don't have the time to keep the stuff there up to date.
Not a problem, and I had figured on being the "point man" on keeping it working. My query here was more along the lines of "is Demo/imputil/ a good idea? If so, then I'll run with it." You said "yes", so I'll go put on my shoes.
Maybe at some point the Demo directory should become a separate distribution, or just a collection of stuff on the web?
I believe a separate distribution. Unpacking the bugger to the main web site would also be a good option, but that would be a second priority. I'd throw Tools into the same thing. As a separate distro, you can have a faster release cycle. ... you could release Idle updates easily and distinctly from the Python core. Note: by a "collection on the web", the only view that I have, is that the collection exists on the python.org web site. Distributed pieces "here and there" is handled by the Vaults (and similar). The Demo/ directory is a bit more newbie-ish, so (IMO) it ought to get bundled up somehow since the Vaults are a bit daunting to find "example of embedding". If the bundle also happens to reside in an obvious area on python.org? Great. Cheers, -g -- Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/