[Distutils] PEP 376 APIs reworked (was: Re: PEP 376 comments)

[Tarek Ziadé]

notice that I didn't change the PEP yet, all the changes are located in :

http://bitbucket.org/tarek/pep376/src/tip/pkgutil.py

I'll change the PEP text when the prototype is stabilized

On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Tarek Ziadé<ziade.tarek at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've reworked the APIs using all the feedback:
>
> - now using basic types (dict + set) to make the code simpler
> - renamed the classes using the "Distribution" root name
> - the global functions are also now sys.path-based and there's no more
> global variable
> - egg_info -> egginfo
> - ...
>
> Please comment !
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 12:07 AM, Kevin Teague<kevin at bud.ca> wrote:
>> Glancing over the EggInfo, EggInfoDirectories, and EggInfoDirectory
>> APIs, it might be interesting if these were able to match with the PEP
>> 3119 interfaces (http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3119/).
>>
>> For example, the EggInfoDirectories has __iter__, append, clear and
>> remove methods, but the source code comments list them as 'container
>> APIs'. Technically though, that's an Iterable interface and a partial
>> implementation of the MutableSequence interface.
>>
>> The EggInfoDirectories.get_egg_infos(project_name) is also suggestive
>> of the Mapping interface - if this method was shortened from
>> get_egg_infos() to just get().
>>
>> Maybe it would be confusing if an EggInfoDirectories was a
>> MutableSequence which could only have paths added to it, but returned
>> an iterable of EggInfoDirectory, but could also be accessed as a
>> Mapping where the keys are project names and those values are
>> EggInfos ... but maybe something along those lines would work?
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