On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 12:50 PM, Ron DuPlain <ron.dupl...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 9:29 PM, Benjamin Peterson <benja...@python.org> > wrote: >> 2009/3/30 Collin Winter <coll...@gmail.com>: >>> If anyone is interested in working on this during the PyCon sprints or >>> otherwise, here are some easy, concrete starter projects that would >>> really help move this along: >>> - The core refactoring engine needs to be broken out from 2to3. In >>> particular, the tests/ and fixes/ need to get pulled up a directory, >>> out of lib2to3/. >>> - Once that's done, lib2to3 should then be renamed to something like >>> librefactor or something else that indicates its more general nature. >>> This will allow both 2to3 and 3to2 to more easily share the core >>> components. >> >> FWIW, I think it is unfortunately too late to make this change. We've >> already released it as lib2to3 in the standard library and I have >> actually seen it used in other projects. (PythonScope, for example.) >> > > Paul Kippes and I have been sprinting on this. We put lib2to3 into a > refactor package and kept a shell lib2to3 to support the old > interface. > > We are able to run 2to3, 3to2, lib2to3 tests, and refactor tests. We > only have a few simple 3to2 fixes now, but they should be easy to add. > We kept the old lib2to3 tests to make sure we didn't break anything. > As things settle down, I'd like to verify that our new lib2to3 is > backward-compatible (since right now it points to the new refactor > lib) with one of the external projects. > > We've been using hg to push changesets between each other, but we'll > be committing to the svn sandbox before the week is out. I'm heading > out today, but Paul is sticking around another day. > > It's a start, > > Ron >
See sandbox/trunk/refactor_pkg. More fixers to come... -Ron _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
