Idioms for Modules

[John Arbash Meinel]

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Russel Winder wrote:
> Bazaar plugins are an excellent paradigm of how to use Python packages
> as "add ins" for a system.  Easy to work with using Bazaar.  However, a
> lot of systems use modules, not packages, as the unit of "add in".
> 
> Is there an easy idiom of use for using Bazaar to do version control of
> modules rather than packages?
> 
> Thanks.

What do you consider a module versus a package? You mean 'foo.py' versus
'foo/__init__.py' ?

As bzr versions a 'tree' and not individual files, I don't know that
there is a great answer.

Technically, bzr plugins can also be modules. It is just rarely ever
used because packages are more flexible, and integrate better with bzr
as a VCS.

(consider that at a minimum bzr needs a place to put its information
about the file, you can't really do that with a module, since it is
limited to a single file...)

So in general, no, there isn't an easy way to use bzr to version
single-file modules.

I suppose you could version them somewhere, and then symlink the single
module into the right location.

John
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