"Nick Coghlan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | M.-A. Lemburg wrote: | > I don't think that an administrative problem such as forward- | > porting patches to 3.x warrants breakage in the 2.x branch. | > | > After all, the renaming was approached for Python 3.0 and not | > 2.6 *because* it introduces major breakage. | > | > AFAIR, the discussion on the stdlib-sig also didn't include the | > plan to backport such changes to 2.6. Otherwise, we would have | > hashed them out there. | | I think MAL is 100% correct here (and I expect Raymond will chime in to | support him at some point as well).
For what little it's worth, I was surprised too that the 3.0 renames were backported as thr default versions. It strikes me as possibly a 'bridge too far' ;-). tjr _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
