[Web-SIG] Merge Cookie and cookielib?

[Robert Brewer]

Brett Cannon wrote:
> So my question is whether you all would be up for handling a merging
> of Cookie and cookielib for 2.6?

I appreciate the thought and effort for a smooth transition, but -1 on
this idea if I understand it correctly.

We have no plans to write a version of CherryPy which runs on both 2.x
and 3.x, and even fewer plans to try autogenerating any part of
CherryPy-for-Python-3 from the existing code, despite all the hard work
on the 2to3 project. It's all going to be ported to Python 3 by hand to
ensure our invariants are maintained. Therefore, rearranging any modules
from 2.5 to 2.6 just makes more work for our team in the short term
(lots of sys.version checking since we're still supporting Python 2.3)
with zero gain in the long term. I'd rather just make one static name
change (e.g. from "import Cookie" to "import cookie.server") in the new
cp-python-3 branch and be done.


Robert Brewer
fumanchu at aminus.org