[RFC] Changes to 'selftest --starting-with'

[Harald Meland]

[Vincent Ladeuil]

> I'd like to find a solution that do not conflict with valid
> package names.
>
> One is to use '.' as the leading character so that we can do:
>
> .bt => bzrlib.tests
> .bp => bzrlib.plugins
> .gtk => bzrlib.plugins.gtk

PEP 328 uses leading dot(s) in the package name part of import
statements to indicate that the import should be relative, so the
above alias syntax will probably become somewhat confusing when such
relative imports become a more widely known feature.
-- 
Harald