On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 2:26 PM, Jeroen Vermeulen <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2010-08-19 20:10, Jonathan Lange wrote: > >>> But does that have to be a joke? Couldn't we generate imports (well, >>> those >>> from other Launchpad modules) automatically during branch build? >> >> ... >> >> I would much rather use editor tools than a preprocessor. Once we >> introduce a mandatory preprocessing stage, we are no longer writing >> Python code. Editor tools provide much the same convenience, but leave >> us still writing standard Python. > ... > The part I haven't thought about at all yet is how to avoid this being an > extra step, or a noticeable delay, for the developer. But at any rate we > may find a "make" before testing preferable over editing imports ourselves. > I for one dislike that jump to the top of the file and back. >
Easily avoided with a scriptable editor. IIRC, Edwin demonstrated a vim script for this at the Epic. jml _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
