Re: [tauruslib-devel] fix ordered dict import

[Carlos P. <cpa...@ce...>]

I agree with all you say.

I just prefer not to force a hotfix for this because with the transition 
to Taurus4 we already have too much work.

PS: in order not to forget this, I created this ticket:
https://sourceforge.net/p/tauruslib/tickets/271/


On Wed 9 March 2016 14:47:09 PICCA Frederic-Emmanuel wrote:
> > What do you think?
> 
> I think that I applyed the patch in the debian package n order to fix
> the package for now.
> 
> I think that the right fix is to remove the python <2.7 support :) and
> use the "official" collections source for OrderedDict. (Ps pyton2 is
> leggacy the best would be to support python 3.5 and type hinting ;)
> 
> What I think also is that I prefer (from a packager point of view)
> peoples to install dependencies instead of embeding third party
> libraries :)
> 
> My  problem is that continuous integration did not catch this problem
> because upstream and packager usally do not follow the same policy.
> 
> - packaged hate embeded third_party library and remove them.
> - upstream usually embed third-party code because it is easier from
> them to distribut there code.
> 
> This is more a faillure of the python distribution module, that the
> fault of pythonistas :).
> 
> Nevertheless, I think that with pip is is better, and we should let
> peoples install all dependencies via pip instead of embeding code.
> 
> So to summarise
> 
> I thik that collections should be used and fall back to the embeded
> solution for python 2.6 until it get's removed.
> 
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Fred

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