[Python-Dev] New functionality in micro releases (was:Documenting branch policy) (original) (raw)

Martin v. Löwis martin at v.loewis.de
Tue Sep 9 21:30:51 EDT 2003

Anthony Baxter <anthony at interlink.com.au> writes:

The approach taken by the XML add-on package doesn't seem to be the right approach, either. At the moment your choices are to manually install the new code over the old, or else have a separate install area that's manually added to the start of the PYTHONPATH (this is what mailman does, right?)

Are you referring to PyXML here? It allows to extend/replace the existing library with neither copying the new code over the old nor with adding anything to PYTHONPATH. Instead, the core library expects to be replaced, and is actively looking for a replacement.

Regards, Martin

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