[pyicu-dev] towards release 1.0

[Andi Vajda]

On Wed, 31 Mar 2010, Andi Vajda wrote:

>
> On Wed, 31 Mar 2010, Andi Vajda wrote:
>
>> 
>> 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...
>
> But isn't that going to cause confusion on PyPI ? A new project would appear, 
> called 'icu', instead of 'PyICU'. Or is there a way to name the egg with 
> 'icu', yet continue to name the project 'PyICU' on cheeseshop ?

So I tried keeping the project name (name key in setup()) to PyICU and 
rename the PyICU module to icu and it seems to work.

A PyICU-****.egg is installed into site-packages and the icu module can be 
imported. Unless I'm missing some flaw with this approach, I'm ready to 
commit the changes for this rename.

Do you see any ?

Andi..