[IPython-dev] IPython module and package reorganization

[Brian Granger]

If you got rid of 2.4 support we could do this, but we still support 2.4.

Brian

On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Darren Dale <dsdale24 at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 3:46 PM, Fernando Perez <fperez.net at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 2:49 PM, Brian Granger<ellisonbg.net at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > I would love to be able to type "ipython" rather than "IPython" all
>> > the time so I am for this change.  What do others think?  Are there
>> > problems with this that I am missing?
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>> I personally would *love* to do this now.  I remember pulling back
>> from this change a long time ago when we realized the problem on
>> OSX/Windows because of name clashes.
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>> One aspect of this change does worry me though: there's a LOT of code
>> in the wild that embeds ipython in all manner of tools, and we'd be
>> breaking all of that with this change.  While we're all on board with
>> doing backwards-incompatible changes, it would be nice to keep *some*
>> level of backwards compatibility, even if done with shim layers.  We
>> could provide a few shims so embedding code like
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>> from IPython.Shell import IPShellEmbed
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>> continues to work for one or two more releases, with proper
>> DeprecationWarnings raised.  But if we rename IPython -> ipython, I
>> don't see a way to expose any backwards compatibility mechanism.  And
>> I think all changes of this kind should strive for a fair balance
>> between necessary evolution and limiting the damage for existing
>> users: there's no absolute right answer here, just a matter of finding
>> an acceptable compromise.
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> Could the current IPython package be cleaned up to cooperate with relative
> package imports (using absolute_import from __future__)? Then packages that
> require the old organization could include it as a subpackage of their own
> projects, and the top-level ipython-1.0 can reorganize under ipython/.
>
> Darren
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