> So some questions arise: > 1. Good idea or not? > 2. Really? Could be viewed as bad mojo & messing about one step too > far. > 3. If OK, should it be static? ie the list of what gets imported and > handles what dealt with by a table lookup in Kamaelia/__init__.py ? > 4. Or should it go "OK, I was imported here, I'll rummage around in all > my > subdirectories, in this overall order" > 5. Do 3, then 4, if the name wasn't found in 3. > 6. The other way round ? > 7. Do we allow extra search paths for the case of 4 ? (think sys.path > for > modules) > 8. How about allowing extra lookup tables to be added in the case of 3? > 9. lots more possibilities.
I can see it would be much less verbose and that is a *good* thing! If nothing else, from writing examples in documentation, where brevity is highly desireable, adding all those import statements can be tedious and ugly. I would also worry about the situation where two or more components share the same (leaf) name. Eg: Kamaelia.Chassis.Pipeline Kamaelia.Experimental.Chassis.Pipeline There are also other components which, although they do not clash now, look likely to later, eg: Kamaelia.Audio.Codec.PyMedia.Decoder.Decoder I suppose I'm asking, will someone's code break X months/years later when more components are added to teh repository with the same name? This concern therefore makes me worry this could be a short term gain which causes future difficulties. But maybe this is still a good idea and the solution is to develop a stricter component naming policy? (and retrospectively rename existing components to fit it) Another perspective: If one of the problems this is trying to solve is disagreement over where a component should be located in the hierarchy; this could be solved by symlinking - ie. let the component be in both places in the hierarchy where it is believed to make sense. However, I guess this could end up being highly confusing! I can see it would make sense if you consider the hierarchy as a hierarchical classification scheme, rather than a packaging/encapulsation thing - eg. more like categories on Ebay than packages in java. -- | Matt Hammond | | [anything you like unless it bounces] 'at' matthammond 'dot' org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "kamaelia" group. To post to this group, send email to kamaelia@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to kamaelia+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/kamaelia?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
