Re: [Jython-users] How do I make this easily usable by others? possible bug?

[Frank W. <fwi...@gm...>]

On 8/1/07, Oti <oh...@gm...> wrote:
> A little explanation (let's stick to the swing example):
> If a package (javax.swing) is not yet known to the caller's
> classloader (Package.getPackages()), and you do a non-explicit import
> like:
>   from javax import swing
>   import javax.swing
>   from javax.swing import *
> then we humans know that javax.swing is a java package, but jython
> does not, and has no way of finding out programmatically.
> (Well, I was thinking about making an exception to this rule and
> recognizing the core java packages, but am not yet decided if
> "deferring the confusion" is really what we want. We would then
> recognize non-explicit imports of core packages, but fail on all other
> packages).
Personally I think doing this would cause more confusion than it would
save -- I'd prefer it if we have the same policy regardless of whether
a package is "core" to java or not...

-Frank