[Python-Dev] Merging Jython code into standard Lib [was Re: Python Language Summit at PyCon: Agenda]

[fwierzbicki at gmail.com]

On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 11:24 AM, Chris Jerdonek
<chris.jerdonek at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 1:30 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
>> Le Wed, 27 Feb 2013 11:33:30 -0800,
>> "fwierzbicki at gmail.com" <fwierzbicki at gmail.com> a écrit :
>>>
>>> There are a couple of spots that might be more controversial. For
>>> example, Jython has a file Lib/zlib.py that implements zlib in terms
>>> of the existing Java support for zlib. I do wonder if such a file is
>>> acceptable in CPython's Lib since its 195 lines of code would be
>>> entirely skipped by CPython.
>>
>> That's a bit annoying. How will we know that the code still works, even
>> though our buildbots don't exercise it?
>> Also, what happens if the code doesn't work anymore?
>
> Agreed on those problems.  Would it be possible to use a design
> pattern in these cases so the Jython-only code wouldn't need to be
> part of the CPython repo?  A naive example would be refactoring zlib
> to allow subclassing in the way that Jython needs, and then Jython
> could subclass in its own repo.  CPython could have tests to check the
> subclass "contract" that Jython needs.
What about a plat-java section to parallel plat-aix4, plat-darwin,
etc? The analogy being that the Java platform is somewhat analogous to
being it's own os? And these areas are not active when on other
operating systems...

-Frank