[Python-Dev] Great Renaming? What is the goal?

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Gordon McMillan wrote:
> 
> Andrew M. Kuchling wrote:
> [snip]
> >   2) Right now there's no way for third-party extensions to add
> >   themselves to a package in the standard library.  Once Python finds
> >   foo/__init__.py, it won't look for site-packages/foo/__init__.py, so
> >   if you grab, say, "crypto" as a package name in the standard library,
> >   it's forever lost to third-party extensions.
> 
> That way lies madness. While I'm happy to carp at Java for
> requiring "com", "net" or whatever as a top level name, their
> intent is correct: the names grabbed by the Python standard
> packages belong to no one but the Python standard
> packages. If you *don't* do that, upgrades are an absolute
> nightmare.
> 
> Marc-Andre grabbed "mx". If (as I rather suspect <wink>) he
> wants to remake the entire standard lib in his image, he's
> welcome to - *under* mx.

Right, that's the way I see it too. BTW, where can I register
the "mx" top-level package name ? Should these be registered
in the NIST registry ? Will the names registered there be
honored ?
 
> What would happen if he (and everyone else) installed
> themselves *into* my core packages, then I decided I didn't
> want his stuff? More than likely I'd have to scrub the damn
> installation and start all over again.

That's a no-no, IMHO. Unless explicitly allowed, packages
should *not* install themselves as subpackages to other
existing top-level packages. If they do, its their problem
if the hierarchy changes...

-- 
Marc-Andre Lemburg
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