Re: [Pyobjc-dev] 0.9

[Ronald O. <ous...@ci...>]

On Saturday, Feb 1, 2003, at 20:15 Europe/Amsterdam, Bill Bumgarner 
wrote:

> As Just mentioned, it is about time to do a 0.9 release.
>
> If we are going to do any major changes to the namespace, now is the 
> time.
Speaking of namespaces, I'd like to some massive surgery on function 
names in the C code (to make them comply with our coding style).

>
> I would like to see *everything* in pyobjc move into a 'pyobjc' 
> package... and have the other three/four packages hang below that.
>
> pyobjc.obj
pyobjc.objc (?)
> pyobjc.foundation
> pyobjc.appkit
> pyobjc.addressbook

-1 on this

I like having AppKit and Foundation at toplevel, this neatly mirrors 
the <AppKit/..> and <Foundation/..> "namespaces" in Objective-C. It 
also introduces a fundamental difference between frameworks wrapped by 
the PyObjC-team and other frameworks: The latter cannot be in the 
pyobjc package (which would introduce compatibility issues if the 
wrapper is moved into the core later on)\

>
> ... etc ...
>
> This will make for much easier packaging in app wrappers [simplifies 
> build targets] and much less clutter in site-packages.

This may actually make it harder to build a minimal standalone 
application, IIRC modulefinder assumes you'll need the entire package 
if you use one module from a package. That may or may not be an issue.

Ronald