[Python-Dev] Proposal to revert r54204 (splitext change) (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Thu Mar 15 19:58:04 CET 2007

This particular change looks like gratuitous breakage, no matter how sound the reasons for it, and putting it in to 2.6 with 3.0 "just around the corner" (though not for production purposes) is guaranteed to upset some people and cause adverse reaction.

This is not "prevarication", it's a serious discussion about how such issues should be managed. The current glaring lack is of a sound decision-making process. Such breakage-inducing change should be reserved for major versions (as was the fix to the socket addressing wart).

I just like to point out that I disagree with this classification. The change is not gratuitous breakage (it's neither gratuitous, nor is it breakage), nor is it breakage-inducing.

Regards, Martin

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