[pyicu-dev] towards release 1.0

[Andi Vajda]

On Wed, 31 Mar 2010, Christoph Burgmer wrote:

> Am Mittwoch, 31. März 2010 schrieben Sie:
>> On Mar 31, 2010, at 9:57, Christoph Burgmer <cburgmer at ira.uka.de> wrote:
>> > Hi
>> >
>> > Python has been converting all upper case library names to lower
>> > case for
>> > Python3. From what I see PyICU doesn't support Python3 yet, so this
>> > might be a
>> > non-issue for now, still I'd like to raise this for the 1.0 version
>> > here.
>> >
>> > There's a PEP for the 2to3 changes which I don't have at hand right
>> > now.
>> 
>> I've been thinking of renaming the 'PyICU' module name to 'icu' just
>> like I did with PyLucene when switching from gcj to jcc, taking
>> advantage of the backwards compatibility break this introduced.
>> 
>> If backwards compat is not an issue - or if this is the least bad time
>> to do this - before 1.0 - I'd actually like to do so.
>> 
>> Andi..
>
> What about:
>
> PyICU.py:
> import warnings
> warnings.warn("Module 'PyICU' is deprecated, use 'import icu' instead'",
>    category=DeprecationWarning, stacklevel=2)
> from icu import *
>
> Of course followed by updating imports in _PyICU.cpp.

This won't cover the necessary egg name change, right ?
I think I'm just going to swallow the backwards compatibility break and do 
the rename...

Andi..