[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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