On Jun 15, 2013, at 10:45 PM, Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> wrote:
> Ethan Furman <et...@stoneleaf.us> writes: > >> So I have the stdlb 3.4 Enum backported for both earlier 3.x and back >> to 2.4 in the 2.x series. >> >> I would like to put this on PyPI, but the `enum` name is already >> taken. > > I have for a long time approved of ‘flufl.enum’ becoming the One Obvious > Way to do enumerations, and am glad to see PEP 435 bring it into the > standard library. > > <URL:http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2011-July/010811.html> > > There are some people still contacting me about their use of the ‘enum’ > package on PyPI, so I think that to just replace it with a different > code base under the same name would not be helpful. > >> Would it be inappropriate to call it `stdlib.enum`? > > That sounds good to me. > > Is there anything I can do to keep the ‘enum’ package online for > continuity but make it clear, to automated tools, that this is > end-of-life and obsoleted by another package? Right now the best you can do is make a note of it. Pep 426 let's you do what you want. > > -- > \ “Free thought is a necessary, but not a sufficient, condition | > `\ for democracy.” —Carl Sagan | > _o__) | > Ben Finney > > _______________________________________________ > 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/donald%40stufft.io _______________________________________________ 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