On 14/03/2016 21:09, Ian Kelly wrote:
On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 11:32 AM, Rick Johnson
<rantingrickjohn...@gmail.com> wrote:
Ignoring Tkinter, which is a gawd awful mess, how would you
re-organize the 3,656 symbols in OpenGL.GL into smaller
modules, without dividing them up along some random or
arbitrary lines?
In that particular case, I wouldn't, except possibly as an
implementation detail with the main OpenGL package importing the
contents of all its sub-packages into itself (and I think that if you
look at the PyOpenGL source you'll find that it's doing something
similar). It's following a well-documented API that is separate from
its Python wrapper. It's unfortunate that the only namespacing
considered in the design of that API was "everything starts with the
prefix gl", but that's what we're stuck with. Moving things around
would just confuse users who can't then find them where they expect.
If it was reorganised rr would claim that it had split the community in
the same way that the disastrous migration from Python 2 to 3 has done.
The minor snag to his argument is that I'm not aware of any such split.
Python 2.8, RickedPython, and the latest entry into the race,
BartCPython, all vapourware. At least rr knows something about
tkinter/IDLE, whereas the latter appears to know squat about anything.
You can fool all of the programmers, all of the time?
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