Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (241 mails)

[Christoph Thiel <cthiel@xxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 10:39:59AM -0400, James Oakley wrote:

> > osc already has code in place to use Python 2.5's xml.etree. (We just
> > need to drop the python-elementtree requirement for $dist >= 10.2). All
> > other packages that depended on python-elementtree should have been
> > patched to use xml.etree. If there are still hidden problems with this,
> > let me know!
> >
> > Is there any functionally that existed in python-elementtree, which is
> > not part of xml.etree that you relied on? (I only know of
> > SimpleXMLWriter, which was only used by repoview and therefore is now
> > being shipped with repoview.)
> 
> A list of differences can be found at 
> http://codespeak.net/lxml/compatibility.html

Are you sure this is really the in-tree Python 2.5 etree.xml? It looks like
a different thing to me -- at first glace.


> I have no problem porting my code, but other people may have trouble. Why
> not make ElementTree raise a DeprecationWarning for a short period to give
> people a chance to catch up?

I guess we can add the package back, in case it really turns out to be a
problem. But as of today I'm not aware of any.


Best,
Christoph
-- 
Christoph Thiel, Tech. Project Management, Research & Development
SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg)
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