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On 12 April 2002, Barry A. Warsaw said:
> Is Greg willing to sign the PSF contributor's agreement <wink>?
In a flash.
> Seriously though, the docs should be converted to .tex and there
> should probably be some unittests for it.
There are tests, but they don't use any testing framework. Might be a
good chance to try out PyUnit and see how it stacks up. ;-)
> Also, is "optik" the right name for the package in the standard
> library? It's a great project name, but I'm not so sure that it's as
> descriptive as it could be (I'm thinking mimelib/email here).
> "getopt" is taken, but how about "options"?
All of the following have occurred to me:
* drop the optik package right into the standard lib as-is, cutesy
name and all
* same as above, but call it options or option_parser or something
(I'm *not* keen on cloptions, sorry)
* same as either of the above, but merge it into a single module
-- the 'optik' package in Optik 1.3 is only 1,100 source lines, of
which 579 are code, in 3 modules
* cat optik/lib/*.py >> Lib/getopt.py and edit until it works
(Guido wasn't keen on this in private email)
* turn 'getopt' into a package that makes the existing getopt
stuff available as well as Optik's OptionParser and Option --
eg. to use the new interface, you would do
from getopt import OptionParser, ...
instead of
from optik import OptionParser
* variation on the previous one that uses subtle and clever import-
time tricks to avoid importing Optik's ~1,000 lines of code unless
they are actually needed, to reduce the run-time impact on existing
code that just uses the current getopt module
The advantages of keeping the name "Optik" are:
* it has already had some publicity with this name, notably
Stephen Figgins' article in onlamp.com
* easier for me to convert the docs and test suite
The disadvantages are:
* it's not really The Way of the Standard Library
* means development of Optik is now tied to Python -- I can't
maintain a separate thing called "Optik" (I'm not sure if I want
to, though -- there's really not much more to do)
I'm pretty open to whatever consensus arises.
Greg
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