[Python-checkins] r62357 - peps/trunk/pep-3108.txt
brett.cannon
python-checkins at python.org
Wed Apr 16 02:41:32 CEST 2008
Author: brett.cannon
Date: Wed Apr 16 02:41:32 2008
New Revision: 62357
Log:
Clarify some wording.
Modified:
peps/trunk/pep-3108.txt
Modified: peps/trunk/pep-3108.txt
==============================================================================
--- peps/trunk/pep-3108.txt (original)
+++ peps/trunk/pep-3108.txt Wed Apr 16 02:41:32 2008
@@ -381,9 +381,7 @@
The Mac-specific modules are mostly unmaintained (e.g., the bgen
tool used to auto-generate many of the modules has never been
updated to support UCS-4). It is also not Python's place to maintain
-such a large amount of OS-specific modules. For modules that provide
-a small amount of focused functionality (e.g., _winreg), that can be
-considered reasonable.
+such a large amount of OS-specific modules.
* aepack
@@ -737,9 +735,11 @@
-------------------
For modules that are renamed, stub modules will be created with the
-original names and be kept in a package within the stdlib. The need
-to keep them within a package is to prevent naming conflicts
-with case-insensitive filesystems.
+original names and be kept in a directory within the stdlib (e.g. like
+lib-old was once used for). The need to keep the stub modules within
+a directory is to prevent naming conflicts with case-insensitive
+filesystems in those cases where nothing but the case of the module
+is changing.
These stub modules will import the module code based on the new
naming. The same type of warning being raised by modules being
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