On 8 Jul 2002 at 19:03, Martin v. Loewis wrote: > "Gordon McMillan" <gmcm@hypernet.com> writes: > > > > Of couse, taking the _xmlplus hack out of PyXML > > > will cause backwards compatibility problems > > > (regardless what the alternative hook is). > > > > How? As long as "import xml" gets them _xmlplus, I > > can't see how it would break anything. > > Of course, once the hack that is taken out of PyXML, > there won't be any _xmlplus anymore. > > I was thinking about applications that package > Python applications, like freeze or Installer. > People might have taken into account that they have > to look inside _xmlplus as well. If the hack > changes, they have to take into account that they > need to look somewhere else, instead. py2exe doesn't do _xmlplus (unless that's changed recently) - Thomas has people overlay xml with _xmlplus. Installer does do it, but it's a horrid hack (one bad hack deserves another) and I'd be delighted to remove it. -- Gordon http://www.mcmillan-inc.com/
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