[Import-SIG] PEP 402: specification questions

["Martin v. Löwis"]

> I was under the impression, though, that you were wanting to do a
> revised PEP 382 instead?

Responding to this first (I need to study your technical answers in
detail later):

I'm not quite sure how to proceed from here. I could well imagine
merging the two PEPs somehow (and would prefer if they merge into
PEP 382 as I'm more familiar with that). If that sounds reasonable
to you, feel free to propose any changes that you think should be
made to PEP 382.

ISTM that the two PEPs give opposing answers to some questions,
which ultimately requires somebody to make a decision. I'm not sure
which of these differences you consider fundamental, and which
arbitrary. To give some examples:
- what constitutes a package on disk?
- what's the impact of this new feature on existing P/__init__.py
  packages?
- what's the impact on existing modules P.py?
- when exactly is the path scan performed?

It might also be that you worked on PEP 402 only because PEP 382
appeared stalled (which it was for some time). If you are happy
with PEP 382 in its current form, you might want to withdraw PEP 402.

Regards,
Martin