> To make the rest a bit shorter: I'm stronly -1 on supporting different > language versions and even -1 on bug-fixing multiple branches. That's just two
Yes, yes, I'm not saying we do! I really hope we stay backwards-compatible. What I am saying is that we should have a policy (and a website statement) saying that *if* we break backwards-compatability, *then* we will commit to either backporting bugfixes or support multiple language versions (and *if* that happens, I think the latter one is going to be less of a pain, but one can discuss that if that happens). Without that, we can't really give people the security they need, they're at our mercy that we do not break the compatability, so to speak. I think "from __future__ import division" is an excellent example of supporting multiple language levels in a nice way, it is not that horrible to do. But let's hope not. -- Dag Sverre _______________________________________________ Cython-dev mailing list [email protected] http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/cython-dev
