repyportability utilizes repyhelper.translate_and_import to import dylink

[choksi81]

As repyhelper is deprecated with repyV2, we should come up with an alternative strategy to address repyportability's use of repyhelper. It is being used to import dylink, the new method of importing repy modules.

https://seattle.poly.edu/browser/seattle/branches/repy_v2/portability/repyportability.py#L226

[aaaaalbert]

I've interactively tested plain import, and am looking at using __import__ or the imp Python module as replacements. Either way, I run into a NameError as the callfunc variable does not exist. This is regardless of importing repyportability first.

Checking the locals() and globals of the module being imported versus the interactive interpreter it is seen that the functions defined by repyportability are not available to the module. More research is needed.

[aaaaalbert]

I've created a version of repyportability without repyhelper, see aaaaalbert/portability@274c758