From: Frank W. <fwi...@gm...> - 2009-08-25 01:16:04
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On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 12:37 AM, Leo Soto M.<leo...@gm...> wrote: > I see we are providing a hook in PySystemState to set up a custom > class loader instead of the Jython "standard" class loading strategy. I believe one major past use (and a possible future use) of this hook is to force Jython to use the regular ClassLoader in environments where custom class loaders are not allowed (like unsigned applets). Much of it is indeed old and messy, I attempted to pull the packagecache code out so other projects could use it, but never finished that effort. I did some refactoring (and I think some other folks did too -- maybe Charlie Groves?) But there is certainly plenty of oldness left. I plan to take another crack at a packagecache separation project, but it won't be soon... -Frank |