2010/2/13 "Martin v. Löwis" <mar...@v.loewis.de>: >> I personally like 2to3 in a separate repo because it fits well with my >> view that 2to3 is an extra application that happens to also be >> distributed with python. > > But isn't that just a theoretical property? I know that's how 2to3 > started, but who, other than the committers, actually accesses the 2to3 > repo?
It's used in 3to2 for example. > > I would be much more supportive of that view if there had been a single > release of 2to3 at any point in time (e.g. to PyPI). Alas, partially due > to me creating lib2to3, you actually couldn't release it as an extra > application and run it on 2.6 or 2.7, as the builtin lib2to3 would take > precedence over the lib2to3 bundled with the application. It could be distributed under another name or provide a way to override the stdlib version. -- Regards, Benjamin _______________________________________________ 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
