[Python-Dev] 1.6 job list

[Greg Stein]

On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, Guido van Rossum wrote:
>...
> > We don't add it to the path. Instead, we create new modules that look
> > like:
> > 
> > ---- httplib.py ----
> > from web.httplib import *
> > ----
> > 
> > The only backwards-compat issue with this approach is that people who poke
> > values into the module will have problems. I don't believe that any of the
> > modules were designed for that, anyhow, so it would seem an acceptable to
> > (effectively) disallow that behavior.
> 
> OK, that's reasonable.  I'll have to invent a different reason why I
> don't want this -- because I really don't!

Fair enough.

> > > Plus, it's too much work -- I'd rather focus on getting 1.6 out of the
> > > door, and there's a lot of other stuff I need to do besides moving
> > > modules around.
> > 
> > Stuff that *you* need to do, sure. But there *are* a lot of us who can
> > help here, and some who desire to spend their time moving modules.
> 
> Hm.  Moving modules requires painful and arcane CVS manipulations that
> can only be done by the few of us here at CNRI -- and I'm the only one
> left who's full time on Python.  I'm still not convinced that it's a
> good plan.

There are a number of ways to do this, and I'm familiar with all of them.
It is a continuing point of strife in the Apache CVS repositories :-)

But... it is premised on accepting the desire to move them, of course.

Cheers,
-g

-- 
Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/