adding the XML to 2.0 to be a mistake? ( RE: mxTools (was Re: why no "do : until"?))

[John Schmitt]

Pardon the ignorance, but where is the mistake?  Is it in adding PyXML to
2.0 or is it the way it was done?  Is there no development strategy that
makes this less of a burden?  If a previous release of PyXML had been added
to 2.0, would you still consider it a mistake?

John

> -----Original Message-----
> From: amk at mira.erols.com [mailto:amk at mira.erols.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 7:31 PM
> To: python-list at python.org
> Subject: Re: mxTools (was Re: why no "do : until"?)
> 
> 
> >There are a potentially infinite number of 
> types/classes/modules which
> >can be considered as essential if they are required for 
> consistency in
> >more than one other module.
> 
> In addition, many modules release new revisions much faster than
> Python does.  For example, I consider adding the XML parsing modules
> to 2.0 to now have been demonstrated to be a serious mistake; there
> have been 2 or 3 PyXML releases since Python 2.0.  The versions in 2.0
> had some serious bugs; Martin von Loewis now has to expend effort on
> maintaining consistency across two source trees; patches and bug
> reports sometimes go into the Python project, sometimes into the PyXML
> project; and if you find xml.dom.minidom is present, you have no idea
> if it's the latest version or an older buggy version.
> 
> --amk
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