launchpad-dev team mailing list archive

[Jonathan Lange <jml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 2:01 PM, Jeroen Vermeulen <jtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 2010-08-19 18:38, Jonathan Lange wrote:
>
>> Neither annoys me. What annoys me is getting conflicts from Bazaar for
>> changes where there is no *actual* conflict, or having to actually use
>> my brain to handle something so mindnumbingly trivial as finding and
>> adding imports. Computers should be able to do that for me.
>
> This came up over lunch today.  Stuart joked: why write imports at all?  We
> could look them up automatically.
>
> But does that have to be a joke?  Couldn't we generate imports (well, those
> from other Launchpad modules) automatically during branch build?
...

I would much rather use editor tools than a preprocessor. Once we
introduce a mandatory preprocessing stage, we are no longer writing
Python code. Editor tools provide much the same convenience, but leave
us still writing standard Python.

jml