[py-dev] Re: [py-svn] r6948 - in py/dist/py: . path/fspy path/pypath path/test test test/report test/report/text

[holger krekel]

Hi Laura, 

[Laura Creighton Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 06:11:41AM +0200]
> fspy looks like filesystem py to me.

That's actually what it is, a filesystem+python path to 
allow "addresses" of Python objects within a filesystem

The name 'pypath' doesn't really hint at the filesystem-ness
of this path implementations. 

anyway, at the moment i am just happy i changed the
implementation and semantics of this little thingie because it
will play a critical role for further py.test development
because it allows to simply address python objects across
process barriers.  For running tests on multiple platforms and
with multiple python versions having a way of unambigous
talking about test methods is very important. 

Note though, that for most purposes you don't need to know
about the existence of py.path.fspy() although i do want to 
export the object for the first major release's API. 

cheers, 

    holger