Re: [gentoo-dev] PyXML

[Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis]

2011-05-17 19:11:57 Mark Loeser napisał(a):
> Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis <Arfrever@g.o> said:
> > PyXML is dead:
> >   http://mail.python.org/pipermail/xml-sig/2004-November/010735.html
> >   http://mail.python.org/pipermail/xml-sig/2006-June/011545.html
> >
> > PyXML provides _xmlplus module, which replaces xml module (from standard library) at run time,
> > which might result in various problems.
> >
> > I'm planning to implement the following solution:
> > - Python >=2.7.1-r2:2.7 will provide xml.use_pyxml() function. Calling of this function will be
> >   necessary to use replace xml module with _xmlplus module. Python >=2.7.1-r2:2.7 will be added
> >   to the tree in next week and will be temporarily package.masked. Later this change will be
> >   backported to new versions in older slots.
> > - All packages, which use PyXML, will have to be patched to call xml.use_pyxml(). The following
> >   code should be added before first import of anything from xml module:
> >
> > import xml
> > if hasattr(xml, "use_pyxml"):
> >     xml.use_pyxml()
>
> Is this "use_pyxml" upstream?

Python 2 is dead, so new features will never be added to Python 2 by Python upstream.

Before addition of xml.use_pyxml(), if user had many packages installed, which use xml module,
and 1 package installed, which needs PyXML, then the other packages were suffering from using
old code with more bugs.

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Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis