[Python-3000] Making 2to3 installable

[Guido van Rossum]

On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 3:11 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:
> > Cool! Is the next plan to make lib2to3 part of the stdlib in 2.6 and 3.0?
>
>  Next, I want to have distutils (build_py) to invoke 2to3 as a
>  command-line tool. I think this will already cover most uses
>  that people may have.

Are you serious?

>  Moving lib2to3 into the standard library would mean that the
>  trunk and 3k copies diverge, right?

Not necessarily. If you check it into 2.6 first, then merge and apply
it to its merged self, afterwards most changes would merge into 3.0
just fine.

>  There is also the question how then pgen2 should be in
>  the standard library; it could either be a top-level
>  package, or a subpackage of lib2to3.

I'd like to clean it up and make it a toplevel package. But I may not
have the time, so until I do (or someone else does) it's best to keep
it inside lib2to3.

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