Vinay Sajip wrote:
Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka <at> gmail.com> writes:
Another pertinent question: "What are disadvantages of PEP 414 is adopted?"
It's moot, but as I see it: the purpose of PEP 414 is to facilitate a single
codebase across 2.x and 3.x. However, it only does this if your 3.x interest is
3.3+. If you also want to or need to support 3.0 - 3.2, it makes your workflow
more painful, because you can't run tests on 2.x or 3.3 and then run them on 3.2
without an intermediate source conversion step - just like the 2to3 step that
people find painful when it's part of maintenance workflow, and which in part
prompted the PEP in the first place.
I don't think it's fair to say it makes it *more* painful. Fair to say it
doesn't make it less painful, but adding u'' to 3.3+ doesn't make it harder to
port from 2.x to 3.1+. You're merely no better off with it than without it.
Aside: in my opinion, people shouldn't actively support 3.0, or at least not
advertise support for it, as it was end-of-lifed on the release of 3.1. As I
see it, it is best to pretend that 3.0 never existed :)
--
Steven
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