[Python-Dev] folding cElementTree behind ElementTree in 3.3

[Fred Drake]

On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 11:31 PM, Eli Bendersky <eliben at gmail.com> wrote:
> Besides, in http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2011-December/114812.html
> Stefan Behnel said "[...] Today, ET is *only* being maintained in the
> stdlib by Florent Xicluna [...]". Is this not true?

I don't know.  I took this to be an observation rather than a declaration
of intent by the package owner (Fredrik Lundh).

> P.S. Would declaring that xml.etree is now independently maintained by
> pydev be a bad thing? Why?

So long as Fredrik owns the package, I think forking it for the standard
library would be a bad thing, though not for technical reasons.  Fredrik
provided his libraries for the standard library in good faith, and we still
list him as the external maintainer.  Until *that* changes, forking would
be inappropriate.  I'd much rather see a discussion with Fredrik about the
future maintenance plan for ElementTree and cElementTree.


  -Fred

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