On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 7:37 PM, Tres Seaver <tsea...@palladion.com> wrote: ... > How deep is the six dependency? For every package I've ported to date, > it has ended up being more sensible to implement a local '_compat' module > which had only the needed straddles (sometimes inspired by six, sometimes > very localized).
I can see why this might be sensible in the small, or for packages that really have to minimize dependencies (like buildout), but in the large, this sounds like a huge DRY violation. If we all adopt a 2&3 strategy, then six should be a given and not even count as a dependency. Jim -- Jim Fulton http://www.linkedin.com/in/jimfulton Jerky is better than bacon! http://www.dublinstore.com/ _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - Zope-Dev@zope.org https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )