[Web-SIG] Merge Cookie and cookielib?

[Brett Cannon]

On Feb 5, 2008 3:40 PM, Robert Brewer <fumanchu at aminus.org> wrote:
> 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.

Well, any rearrangement would still work in 2.6, just with a
PendingDeprecationWarning. So no sys.version check would be needed to
keep things running.

-Brett