[lxml-dev] lhtml

[Martijn Faassen]

Ian Bicking wrote:
> Stefan Behnel wrote:
[snip]
>> Note that lxml already has quite a number of modules like lxml.sax and
>> lxml.objectify, so lxml.html would nicely fit in here.
> 
> I had thought about that, but I don't know if it should have the same 
> release schedule...?  It's a somewhat random collection of functions 
> that we've written here and there in other modules.  I can clean them 
> up, of course, but exactly what functionality is in there has been an 
> on-demand sort of thing.  Which is to say, it's young.

If you're willing to help getting releases out of the door, I could 
imagine we let the html functionality drive the release schedule for a 
while. It is not like we have a lot of other features lined up right 
now, so this would be a good way to actually drive a few new releases. 
What do you think, Stefan?

> OTOH, we could distribute it as a namespace package with its own release 
> cycle but still in lxml.html.

I think this is possible as 'lxml' itself is currently an empty 
namespace package (empty __init__.py). It does contain a lot of modules 
though. Does the whole namespace package installation machinery in 
setuptools still work in this case?

Regards,

Martijn