Nick writes: > 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).
And until then, a +1 for MAL's position from me as well. 2.x should be quite conservative about such changes... Cheers, Mark _______________________________________________ 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
