Dropping python-optik?

[Elliot Lee]

On Tue, 8 Jun 2004, Mihai Ibanescu wrote:

> As of python 2.3, Optik is included in the mainline python (although it's
> called optparse now).
>
> Fedora currently ships python 2.3.3 (2.3.4 in rawhide), so we may consider
> dropping the python-optik package.
> 
> If we are to do this, the main python package would have to obsolete
> python-optik and have a virtual provides for python-optik; but then again,
> if your script worked with optik it would have to adjust its imports to use
> optparse instead. So it's quite messy.
> 
> Any preference on how to handle this? Drop the package and deal with the mess?
> Keep the package and deal with the mess? :-)

I would prefer to drop python-optik - it sounds like backwards compat is
the only real reason not to. To handle backwards compat, in the main
python package you could add a simple 'optik.py' that just does 'from
optparse import *' or somesuch.

Cheers,
-- Elliot
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