Hey Jeremiah,

Thanks for doing this!

I'm planning to rebase this PR now:

  https://github.com/apache/incubator-airflow/pull/1586

Which changes the legacy behavior to make it lazy, and give proper error
messages when imports fail.

@Max/@Dan/@Arthur/@Paul, can you guys have a look at the PR?

Cheers,
Chris

On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 5:23 AM, Jeremiah Lowin <[email protected]> wrote:

> This morning I finally merged the "standard imports" PR that has been
> outstanding for almost three months (
> https://github.com/apache/incubator-airflow/pull/1272,
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AIRFLOW-31).
>
> This is the one that makes this behavior deprecated (with a warning):
>     from airflow.operators import PigOperator
> in favor of:
>     from airflow.operators.pig_operator import PigOperator
>
> *IMPORTANT* the user-facing import mechanism will remain fully
> backwards-compatible until Airflow 2.0, but the backwards compatibility is
> turned off for unit tests. I have gone through and done the painful work of
> updating all existing unit tests to comply with this rule.
>
> Why could this be an issue? We don't have full control over Apache travis,
> so it's difficult to make sure that changes to unit tests are enforced on
> currently-outstanding PRs. Normally we'd just rerun the PR's tests -- but
> Apache travis can't do that without a new commit from the PR's author.
>
> Therefore, when merging any PR that travis green-lit in the recent past,
> please take an extra moment to eyeball (or run) any modified unit tests.
> Alternatively, you can pull the PR to your local branch and run travis
> there.
>
> I wish there were a more graceful way to do this -- I considered turning
> backwards compatibility on for tests but that just pushes the pain into the
> future, when things will be even more complex.
>
> Thanks,
> J
>

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