On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 9:42 PM, Jacob Kaplan-Moss <ja...@jacobian.org>wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 3:38 PM, Adrian Holovaty <adr...@holovaty.com> > wrote: > > You mean like a magic import thing, right? > > Well, Python *does* have some namespace package support stuff. It's > something of a mess, with one implementation internally, another in > setuptools, and (IIRC) a new PEP that'll take hold in Python 3 and > clean things up. But yeah, it's a mess, and I'm not sure that > backwards-compatibility here is really *that* big a deal. Changing > imports certainly is pretty easy. > > http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0420/ is the relevant PEP. > > I think we should force the > > issue and require people to change imports -- but they'd have two full > > Django point versions to do that, per our deprecation policy. The one > > controversial thing would be requiring people to install their needed > > django-localflavor-* packages when they upgrade to 1.5. > > I think that's more sane, though I do think 1.5 is too early to pull > the rug out. Perhaps we can do something when we package 1.5 that > includes the broken-out packages, with warnings that > django-localflavor-xx isn't installed and that in 1.6 they'll need to. > > Now I'm just thinking out loud though, not sure exactly what the right > balance between doing things right and not pissing off users is. > > Jacob > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en. > > Alex -- "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." -- Evelyn Beatrice Hall (summarizing Voltaire) "The people's good is the highest law." -- Cicero -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en.
