[Python-Dev] PEP 385 progress report

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Sat Feb 13 07:31:41 CET 2010


>> On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 11:17, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:
>>> IMO, it is realistic to predict that this will not actually happen. If
>>> we can agree to give up the 2to3 sandbox, we should incorporate
>>> find_pattern into the tree, and perhaps test.py as well.
>> I vote on giving up the 2to3 sandbox.
> 
> Besides, if we're using hg, it should make it much easier for someone
> else to branch that part of the stdlib

Actually - no: hg doesn't support branching of parts of a repository.
You would need to branch all of Python. Then, there wouldn't be a
straight-forward place to setup.py and any other top-level files
(although you could hack them into Lib, and work with a distutils manifest).

Regards,
Martin


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