On Sat, 25 Mar 2000, Guido van Rossum wrote: > > I say "do it incrementally" while others say "do it all at once." > > Personally, I don't think it is possible to do all at once. As a > > corollary, if you can't do it all at once, but you *require* that it be > > done all at once, then you have effectively deferred the problem. To put > > it another way, Guido has already invented a reason to not do it: he just > > requires that it be done all at once. Result: it won't be done. > > Bullshit, Greg. (I don't normally like to use such strong words, but > since you're being confrontational here...) Fair enough, and point accepted. Sorry. I will say, tho, that you've taken this slightly out of context. The next paragraph explicitly stated that I don't believe you had this intent. I just felt that coming up with a complete plan before doing anything would be prone to failure. You asked to invent a new reason :-), so I said you had one already :-) Confrontational? Yes, guilty as charged. I was a bit frustrated. > I'm all for doing it incrementally -- but I want the plan for how to > do it made up front. That doesn't require all the details to be > worked out -- but it requires a general idea about what kind of things > we will have in the namespace and what kinds of names they get. An > organizing principle, if you like. If we were to decide later that we > go for a Java-like deep hierarchy, the network package would have to > be moved around again -- what a waste. All righty. So I think there is probably a single question that I have here: Moshe posted a large breakdown of how things could be packaged. He and Ping traded a number of comments, and more will be coming as soon as people wake up :-) However, if you are only looking for a "general idea", then should python-dev'ers nit pick the individual modules, or just examine the general breakdown and hierarchy? thx, -g -- Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
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