[Python-Dev] davlib.py
M.-A. Lemburg
mal@lemburg.com
Thu, 17 Feb 2000 20:32:21 +0100
"Fred L. Drake, Jr." wrote:
>
> Moshe Zadka writes:
> > While I do enjoy having all this stuff with the core distribution, I have
> > one nit to pick. (Relevant more to 1.7 then 1.6, but worth keeping in
> > mind). Can we please, pretty please with cream on top, start using
>
> I think this is really a matter for Py3K; the 1.x series has a lot
> of backward-compatibility issues. There's no need to move things to
> packages if the old names are still supported; that just increases the
> clutter (all the old names *plus* the new packages).
> Until the library is reorganized into packages, there's no need to
> change the structural approach, since the re-organization will break
> lots of code anyway.
>
> > packages in the standard distribution? We can do it backwards compatibly,
> > with something like
> >
> > internet/
> > protocol/
> > httplib.py
>
> I wouldn't make it so deep; perhaps internet/httplib, but that's it.
Python 1.6 will start using packages in the core... the
Unicode patches add an "encodings" package.
> > Put new stuff only in packages, and that way we could have a large
> > distribution, without a lot of top-level name clutter.
>
> The XML stuff will be in the xml package; this matches what the
> XML-SIG has been doing all along.
"mx" is also taken -- its just that nobody knows yet :-)
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Marc-Andre Lemburg
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