On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 4:27 PM, Barry Warsaw <ba...@python.org> wrote: > On Mar 27, 2009, at 2:27 PM, Eric Smith wrote: >> Olemis Lang wrote: >>>> >>>> I also think the feature should go. If you want functionality that's so >>>> difficult to provide when you install as a zip file, the answer is not >>>> to >>>> make things more complex, but to not install as zip files. >>>> >>> What about environments like Google App Engine ? I mean, AFAIK using >>> ZIP files is the *official* solution to meet some quotas & >>> requirements ... CMIIW anyway ... >> >> I mentioned yesterday (in the language summit) that we really need to get >> all the requirements together before we start any work. I fear that there >> are many hidden requirements (or ones that I'm personally not aware of, at
I remembered another similar use case (which is mentioned in PEP 302 -motivation AFAICR- ) ... what about importing Py modules/pkgs packaged in .JAR files to be used in Jython ? ... Hmmmmm? I dont think its a good idea so far to remove zip imports | installs and similar ... at least I'll need further arguments and solutions to concrete use cases to understand this decision a little bit better... ;) >> least). I don't know gettext well enough give an answer yet. > > The class-based API for gettext takes streams, so resource_stream() would > work just fine. I think i18n plugins for Python do not necessarily need to > use the classic gettext API. > In fact ... I use Babel (... especially Translations & Locale classes ;) quite often ... :P Besides web frameworks and apps also need specific artifacts (e.g. Genshi template filters for i18n ...) to fully accomplish these tasks ... ;o) -- Regards, Olemis. Blog ES: http://simelo-es.blogspot.com/ Blog EN: http://simelo-en.blogspot.com/ Featured article: Comandos : Pipe Viewer ... ¿Qué está pasando por esta tubería? _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
