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Dne 10.5.2011 23:21, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis napsal(a): |
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> PyXML is dead: |
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> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/xml-sig/2004-November/010735.html |
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> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/xml-sig/2006-June/011545.html |
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> PyXML provides _xmlplus module, which replaces xml module (from standard library) at run time, |
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> which might result in various problems. |
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> I'm planning to implement the following solution: |
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> - Python >=2.7.1-r2:2.7 will provide xml.use_pyxml() function. Calling of this function will be |
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> necessary to use replace xml module with _xmlplus module. Python >=2.7.1-r2:2.7 will be added |
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> to the tree in next week and will be temporarily package.masked. Later this change will be |
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> backported to new versions in older slots. |
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> - All packages, which use PyXML, will have to be patched to call xml.use_pyxml(). The following |
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> code should be added before first import of anything from xml module: |
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> import xml |
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> if hasattr(xml, "use_pyxml"): |
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> xml.use_pyxml() |
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> This code works with previous versions of Python, so no changes in dependencies are needed. |
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Apart from not being developed is PyXML actualy broken so we can't wait |
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for upstream [1] to migrate their packages? |
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I see just one open bug for it when I search bugzilla. |
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[1] http://qa-reports.gentoo.org/output/genrdeps/rindex/dev-python/pyxml |
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