[Python-Dev] Multiple revisions [was: Re: Stability and change] (original) (raw)

Jacob Hall�n jacob@strakt.com
Tue, 09 Apr 2002 13:35:58 +0200

Guido van Rossum wrote:

/ It would help to some degree if the "stable" releases could be shown />>/ to have SOME kind of enhancement. Not as much as if language />>/ changes which did not break existing correct code could also be />>/ there, but some. Modules such as email are a big part of the draw />>/ of 2.2, for example (not quite as big as language-level enhancements, />>/ but big). /> Now there's a good proposal. But it costs time and effort that takes away from our main mission (and PythonLabs is already under a lot of pressure). I wonder if there's a commercial market for this? Maybe ActiveState could back-port important packages or language changes and insert them into ActivePython?

You can significantly reduce the time needed to apply patches to several versions of your software by using a smart revision control system.

I recently discovered "arch", which has been designed to handle multiple parallell versions. It is a marvel, and it comes with really good descriptions of how to handle the problem in practice. I know that Linus Torvalds is considering it for the Linux kernel.

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Jacob Hall�n