> -> I'm also skeptical that this is a good SoC project in the first place.
What is a good SoC project from your point of view ? > -> Coming up with a wrapper for, say, Apple Keychain, could be a good > -> project. Coming up with a unifying API for all keychains is out of > -> scope, IMO; various past attempts at unifying APIs have demonstrated > -> that creating them is difficult, and might require writing a PEP > -> (whose acceptance then might not happen within a summer). > > Well, that's a more unassailable argument and one I agree with ;). For this case, the student work is not a "dumb" work consisting of writing code on an already-thaught PEP... Part of the work will consist of working on a PEP-like document, and on building APIs for various keychains and see if we can have an unified one. I doubt the PEP-like document can be written before writing prototypes APIs for various keychains has been done. At the end of the summer, if we come up with a nice unified API, I'd like to include it to Distutils for the "register" command, and maybe write a PEP to have it as part of the standard library because it makes sense to have this kind of feature imho. Tarek _______________________________________________ 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
