Bug#387152: ITP: twill -- A simple scripting language for Web browsing

[Titus Brown <titus@caltech.edu>]

On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 11:59:02PM +0200, Arnaud Fontaine wrote:
-> >>>>> "Titus" == Titus Brown <titus@caltech.edu> writes:
-> 
->     -> Actually, I have just  tried that, however the current version of
->     ->  beautifulsoup in Debian  is 3.x  whereas mechanize  only support
->     -> beautifulsoup 2.x  ATM. So, I wonder how I  could fix this issue,
->     -> any idea?
-> 
->     Titus> I think  John Lee would probably be  resistant to ripping out
->     Titus> BS altogether  from his distribution.  How much  of a problem
->     Titus>  is  it to  simply  keep it  in  there?   It's not  generally
->     Titus> accessible, so it wouldn't interfere with anything.
-> 
-> Actually,  BeautifulSoup  is  not  included in  mechanize  source  tree.
-> Therefore, if we want  to use python-mechanize instead of other_packages
-> module,  it will  fail  because mechanize  imports BeautifulSoup  module
-> which is included in python-beautifulsoup 3.x.

Ahh, you must be working with an older version.  The latest version of
mechanize includes BeautifulSoup as _beautifulsoup.  (That's an
accomodation that I can make in twill as well, if necessary.)

cheers,
--titus