Re: [gentoo-dev] PyXML

[Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis <Arfrever@gentoo.org>]

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2011-05-17 20:43:29 Tomáš Chvátal napisał(a):
> Dne 10.5.2011 23:21, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis napsal(a):
> > PyXML is dead:
> >   http://mail.python.org/pipermail/xml-sig/2004-November/010735.html
> >   http://mail.python.org/pipermail/xml-sig/2006-June/011545.html
> >
> > PyXML provides _xmlplus module, which replaces xml module (from standard library) at run time,
> > which might result in various problems.
> >
> > I'm planning to implement the following solution:
> > - Python >=2.7.1-r2:2.7 will provide xml.use_pyxml() function. Calling of this function will be
> >   necessary to use replace xml module with _xmlplus module. Python >=2.7.1-r2:2.7 will be added
> >   to the tree in next week and will be temporarily package.masked. Later this change will be
> >   backported to new versions in older slots.
> > - All packages, which use PyXML, will have to be patched to call xml.use_pyxml(). The following
> >   code should be added before first import of anything from xml module:
> >
> > import xml
> > if hasattr(xml, "use_pyxml"):
> >     xml.use_pyxml()
> >
> >   This code works with previous versions of Python, so no changes in dependencies are needed.
> >
> As I already asked,
> what problem do we have to keep PyXML in main tree to be used with python2.
> 
> Your specific hack introduce different behaviour for python2.7.1-r2
> where you do not explain the need for it at all.

I had already explained it in many places.

> It is just python2 thing and we can happily use PyXML as it works even
> with latest python-2.7.
> 
> So where is the problem?

Fixes for at least the following bugs are absent when PyXML is installed:
http://bugs.python.org/issue4877
http://bugs.python.org/issue6098
http://bugs.python.org/issue5762
http://bugs.python.org/issue5027
http://bugs.python.org/issue9054
http://bugs.python.org/issue777884
http://bugs.python.org/issue1433694
http://bugs.python.org/issue847665
http://bugs.python.org/issue1472827
http://bugs.python.org/issue1094164
http://bugs.python.org/issue1309009
http://bugs.python.org/issue1262320
http://bugs.python.org/issue925152

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Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis

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