On Tue, 8 Jun 2004, Mihai Ibanescu wrote: > As of python 2.3, Optik is included in the mainline python (although it's > called optparse now). > > Fedora currently ships python 2.3.3 (2.3.4 in rawhide), so we may consider > dropping the python-optik package. > > If we are to do this, the main python package would have to obsolete > python-optik and have a virtual provides for python-optik; but then again, > if your script worked with optik it would have to adjust its imports to use > optparse instead. So it's quite messy. > > Any preference on how to handle this? Drop the package and deal with the mess? > Keep the package and deal with the mess? :-) I would prefer to drop python-optik - it sounds like backwards compat is the only real reason not to. To handle backwards compat, in the main python package you could add a simple 'optik.py' that just does 'from optparse import *' or somesuch. Cheers, -- Elliot The daring is in the doing http://people.redhat.com/sopwith/
