[Python-Dev] Great Renaming - Straw Man 0.2 (original) (raw)

Moshe Zadka Moshe Zadka mzadka@geocities.com
Tue, 28 Mar 2000 07:36:59 +0200 (IST)

On Mon, 27 Mar 2000, Skip Montanaro wrote:

Responding to an early item in this thread and trying to adapt to later items...

Ping wrote: I'm not convinced "mime" needs a separate branch here. (This is the deepest part of the tree, and at three levels small alarm bells went off in my head.) It's not clear that mime should be beneath text/mail. Moshe moved it up a level,

Actually, Ping moved it up a level. I only decided to agree with him retroactively...

I think the mime stuff still belongs in a separate mime package. I wouldn't just sprinkle the modules under text. I see two possibilities:

text>mime net>mime I prefer net>mime,

I don't. MIME is not a "wire protocol" like all the other things in net -- it's used inside another wire protocol, like RFC822 or HTTP. If at all, I'd go for having a net/ mail/ mime/ Package, but Ping would yell at me again for nesting 3 levels. I could live with text/mime, because the mime format basically is text.

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