[Python-Dev] On breaking modules into packages Was: [issue10199] Move Demo/turtle under Lib/

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Tue, 26 Oct 2010 22:06:37 -0400
Alexander Belopolsky <alexander.belopolsky at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> While I appreciate your and Michael's eloquence, I don't really see
> why five 400-line modules are necessarily easier to maintain than one
> 2000-line module.  Splitting code into modules is certainly a good
> thing when the resulting modules can be used independently.  This
> helps users write leaner programs, reduces mental footprint of
> individual modules, etc, etc.   The split unittest module does not
> bring any such benefits.  It still presents a single "big-ball-of-mud"
> namespace, only rather than implemented in a single file, it is now
> swept in from eight different files.

Are you saying that it has become a pile of medium-sized balls of mud?
I would like to say thanks for the mud, Michael! It's high quality mud
for sure.

Regards

Antoine.