[merge] split out repository formats

Martin Pool mbp at canonical.com
Wed Feb 7 12:50:48 GMT 2007


On  7 Feb 2007, Robert Collins <robertc at robertcollins.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 08:46 -0600, John Arbash Meinel wrote:
> > 
> > By the way, moving classes like this is pretty hard on backwards
> > compatibility. Or at least you can import it back into the original
> > module, but if the goal is to not load unused code, you lose that
> > benefit. I suppose you could do it temporarily and then in the next
> > release you can remove the local import. 
> 
> Isn't lazy loader an answer for that ?

I'm not sure - will it work to have a lazy loader that imports from a
module that itself imports bzrlib.repository?

-- 
Martin



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