[Zope-dev] Python 3.3 port of zope.configuration

[Jim Fulton]

On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 7:37 PM, Tres Seaver <tseaver at palladion.com> wrote:
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> How deep is the six dependency?  For every package I've ported to date,
> it has ended up being more sensible to implement a local '_compat' module
> which had only the needed straddles (sometimes inspired by six, sometimes
> very localized).

I can see why this might be sensible in the small, or for packages that
really have to minimize dependencies (like buildout), but in the large,
this sounds like a huge DRY violation.

If we all adopt a 2&3 strategy, then six should be a given and not even
count as a dependency.

Jim

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