Remove the audioeffects.rebuilt import path

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -8,6 +8,17 @@ together from PyDevices/audiocomponents, and the history from v0.4.2rc1 back
 covers both packages. Releases up to and including audiodsp's v0.1.1 shipped
 both packages from audiodsp, and are recorded in its changelog.
 
+## Unreleased
+
+### Removed
+
+- `audioeffects.rebuilt`. The delay, reverb, pitch and rack classes moved to
+  their own modules directly under `audioeffects` in 0.5.0, and the old
+  `audioeffects.rebuilt.<module>` import paths were kept working until now.
+  Import the class from `audioeffects` (`from audioeffects import Reverb`) or
+  from its module (`audioeffects.reverb`). The classes and their output are
+  unchanged.
+
 ## v0.5.1.dev0 (2026-11-02)
 
 - panel_view: drop unused imports

CONTRIBUTING.md

@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ refer to that archived repository, and they still resolve at
 
 | Path | What's there |
 |---|---|
-| [`lib/audioeffects/`](lib/audioeffects/) | One module per effect, plus `_component.py` (the base every effect is built on) and `rebuilt/`, which only keeps the old `audioeffects.rebuilt.<module>` import paths working. |
+| [`lib/audioeffects/`](lib/audioeffects/) | One module per effect, plus `_component.py` (the base every effect is built on). |
 | [`tools/validate_api.py`](tools/validate_api.py), [`tools/validate_metadata.py`](tools/validate_metadata.py) | The validators that enforce the runtime API and the metadata manifest. |
 | [`tools/effect_probes/`](tools/effect_probes/) | The measurement kit's test signals and their manifest. The audio files are generated, never committed. |
 | `tools/` | Rendering and measurement tools besides. |

docs/conf.py

@@ -19,8 +19,6 @@
         "audioroute", "audiosampler", "audioshaper", "audioverb",
         "synthio",
     ],
-    # `rebuilt` only keeps old import paths alive.
-    api_skip=["rebuilt"],
     version_file="../VERSION",
 )
 

lib/audioeffects/pyproject.toml

@@ -33,10 +33,10 @@ Issues = "https://github.com/PyDevices/audioeffects/issues"
 [tool.setuptools]
 # Every package directory under lib/audioeffects, listed by hand: the
 # package-dir mapping below ("." is the package) rules out packages.find,
-# which would discover rebuilt/ as a top-level "rebuilt". v0.3.0 shipped
-# without audioeffects.rebuilt and failed on import; tools/wheel_gate.py
-# (the "Wheel" job in tests.yml) fails if a directory is left off again.
-packages = ["audioeffects", "audioeffects.rebuilt"]
+# which would discover any subpackage as a top-level package. v0.3.0 shipped
+# without a subpackage and failed on import; tools/wheel_gate.py (the "Wheel"
+# job in tests.yml) fails if a directory is left off again.
+packages = ["audioeffects"]
 
 [tool.setuptools.package-dir]
 audioeffects = "."

tools/wheel_gate.py

@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 commit from git, as tests.yml does) and the wheel with --no-deps, and --
 from outside the repo, with `python -I` so lib/ cannot leak in -- imports
 the package, renders one effect by catalogue name, and loads every effect
-class and the old `audioeffects.rebuilt` import path.
+class, and checks the removed `audioeffects.rebuilt` path stays gone.
 
 Needs `build` in the interpreter that runs it. Exit status is non-zero on any
 failure, and every failure is printed.
@@ -78,11 +78,13 @@ def loudest(sample, blocks=8):
     sys.exit("effect classes did not load: %r" % (missing or names,))
 print("effect classes load:", len(names))
 
-# The old import path still reaches the same class.
-from audioeffects.rebuilt.reverb import Reverb
-if Reverb is not audioeffects.Reverb:
-    sys.exit("audioeffects.rebuilt.reverb does not re-export Reverb")
-print("audioeffects.rebuilt still imports")
+# The old `audioeffects.rebuilt` import path is gone.
+try:
+    __import__("audioeffects.rebuilt.reverb")
+except ImportError:
+    print("audioeffects.rebuilt is gone")
+else:
+    sys.exit("audioeffects.rebuilt still imports")
 print("wheel smoke: ok")
 '''