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Only if the library is renamed for each new version, which seems a bit impractical.
by ForHackernews 2y ago
Only if the library is renamed for each new version, which seems a bit impractical.
- CraigJPerry 2y agoI guess that’s my central thesis against the need for this work - it’s not impractical to rename an import. With a tool like rope, I feel fairly confident I can refactor a source available, pure python dependency, pretty quickly. Where I get less comfortable with my idea is that not every dependency has source available (e.g. db2 database driver as an example). Another case is where some deps which have source available but the python module dependency is in C/C++/Rust - e.g. scipy