[Python-Dev] Decimal news (original) (raw)

Thomas Wouters thomas at python.org
Wed Sep 19 16:30:18 CEST 2007

On 9/19/07, Facundo Batista <facundobatista at gmail.com> wrote:

2007/9/18, Thomas Wouters <thomas at python.org>: > Unfortunately, that's not how it works :-) If you check something into the > trunk, it will be merged into Py3k sooner or later. I may ask the original > submitter for assistance if it's incredibly hard to figure out the changes, > but so far, I only had to do that with the SSL changes. The decimal changes > are being merged as I write this (tests running now.) Is there anything in > particular that needs to be done for decimal in Py3k, besides renaming > div to truediv? There isn't nothing really special to do, but my plan was because I didn't know how the mechanism worked, ;) It'd be great if all the changes that I'm making to Decimal are automatically, at some point, merged into Py3k (I guess that using the conversion tool).

I don't usually have to use the 2to3 tool, but sometimes, yes.

But at some point, both codes may start to diverge, because

Py3k-specific optimizations could be done there... but this could be done in an year or two, ;).

So, how is this handled? Until which moment can I expect that the changes in the trunk are merged to Py3k?

Until you hear otherwise :) You can commit py3k-specific changes to the py3k branch, the merges shouldn't lose them. (Of course, mistakes in merging are possible, which is why tests are good :) If I do base the merge on the 2to3 outpt of the trunk version, I'd be careful not to lose changes made in the branch.

-- Thomas Wouters <thomas at python.org>

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