On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 6:01 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 24 October 2013 16:05, Eric Snow <ericsnowcurren...@gmail.com> wrote: >> * I've asserted that there shouldn't be much difficulty in adjusting >> pkgutil and other modules to work with ModuleSpec. > > More specifically: importlib finders will still expose the previous > import plugin API for backwards compatibility, so the worst case > scenario is that we miss something and there's an API somewhere that > doesn't accept import plugins that only provide the new API and not > the old one. > > However, the PEP should explicitly state that any such omissions will > be treated as bugs in the 3.4.x series (although we'll aim to handle > them all in the initial implementation).
Good point. I'll add that. > > Thanks for recording the details of the earlier off-list discussion :) :) -eric _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
