D2282: util: extract all date-related utils in utils/dateutil module

[martinvonz (Martin von Zweigbergk)]

martinvonz added a comment.


  In https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D2282#37758, @lothiraldan wrote:
  
  > 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`?
  
  
  I don't know much about Python. Is it defined whether util.pyc or util/__init__.py will take precedence, and, if so, which is it?

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