D2282: util: extract all date-related utils in utils/dateutil module
lothiraldan (Boris Feld)
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Fri Feb 16 05:57:18 EST 2018
lothiraldan added a subscriber: durin42.
lothiraldan added a comment.
In https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D2282#37757, @dlax wrote:
> lothiraldan (Boris Feld) wrote:
>
> > I have but I'm always very cautious when creating a new package with the
> > name of an old module. .pyc/.pycache files may still be there both for
> > Mercurial developers and for Mercurial users using their deb/rpm package.
> >
> > I may be wrong, but if we could avoid weird bugs, I would prefer put in
> > the utils package.
>
> Well, this is Python... Most people are aware of this kind of issues, I
> think. So the argument sounds a bit like FUD :)
>
> On the other hand, if we keep going that route, we'll have to live with
> util/utils "forever" just to have avoided this hypothetical
> inconvenience, is this more acceptable?
I would love to be wrong on this, just remember that Mercurial users are not necessarily Python developers.
@martinvonz @durin42 what d you think about copying `util.py` as `util/__init__.py`?
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