On Mon, 9 Jun 2014 11:57:07 +0200, Sergio Pascual wrote:
I have a pair of python packages that bundle a series of python
packages
under a subpackage extern. In particular, python-astropy bundles six,
configobj, pytest and ply.
What I do is patching the source, so that instead of
from astropy.extern.six import ...
I have
from six import ...
This works for astropy itself, but other third-party packages require
astropy.extern to exist and work, i.e, its part of the API of astropy.
I have read this
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Toshio/Unbundling_Python_Modules
but before trying to implement changes, my question is: is a valid approach
to remove the bundled library and make a files ystem link to the system
library?
IMO, it would be cleaner to adjust the "import" statements and make
them try importing the system modules before falling back to the
bundled modules. Such a change could be merged upstream, and then you
would only need to delete the bundled modules.
Of course, a primary question is why are these modules bundled?
Is it only out of convenience (for the users/developers)?
Are there strict dependencies on specific versions of these modules?