[Python-Dev] PEP 451 update (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Thu Oct 31 10:52:54 CET 2013

On 31 Oct 2013 18:52, "Eric Snow" <ericsnowcurrently at gmail.com> wrote:

On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 10:24 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote: > There's also the option of implementing the constraint directly in the > finder, which does have the necessary info (with the change to pass the > previous spec to findspec). Yeah, I thought of that. I just prefer the more explicit supportsreload(). That said... > > I still think it makes more sense to leave this out for the moment - it's > not at all clear we need the extra method, and adding it later would be a > straightforward protocol update. ...I agree that makes the most sense for now. :) BTW, thanks for pushing these issues. I think the API has gotten pretty solid. I just need to make sure the PEP covers the cases and conclusions we're discussing.

Thanks are also due to PJE for making me realise we were handwaving too much when it came to the expected reload semantics :)

Cheers, Nick.

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