Fwd: PyXDG

[Thomas Kluyver]

(Accidentally replied off list, sending to the list now)

On 25 April 2012 12:27, Jerome Leclanche <adys.wh at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've been working for a while now on a python implementation of xdg specs,
> it works on both python2 and 3. PyXDG codebase is absolutely awful. Link
> below if anyone's interested. It's not feature-complete yet though...

Thanks, Jerome. Do you have a feel for:

- How long will it take to replace the functionality of PyXDG?
- How similar will the interface be? Will adapting code that uses it
just require renaming a few functions, or will it need other code to
be refactored?

I haven't got a particular interest in maintaining PyXDG myself, but
there are quite a few other packages that depend on it. I think it
would be pretty easy to make PyXDG Python 3 compatible, so I suggest
we make a 0.20 release with just those changes, so that existing code
can keep using it. Then we can encourage people to move to your
interface over time.

Vincent:
> We can migrate the CVS repo to git, and give you access if you're interested and nobody else steps up :-)

Thanks, that sounds like a good idea. I'll start working out what
changes are needed for Python 3.

Thomas