[Python-Dev] Roundup version numbers (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Mon Jan 5 21:36:36 CET 2009

But since two weeks ago, this list was trimmed down. I think that it was to not be able to submit bugs for older Python versions, which is great, but there're some bugs assigned to older versions (for example, [1]).

All true.

Should I use another way to query the version number-name relationship (to see them all)? Or those issues that point to older Python versions should be updated?

All existing associations between versions and issues stay as they are. I don't quite understand what the problem is. Yes, the versions were "retired" (in roundup speak), and yes, issues that were originally associated with the retired versions stay associated. So what is the problem with that?

If you want to find out all versions, including retired ones, you need to iteratively go through the list, asking for, say

http://bugs.python.org/version4

(there might also be an XML-RPC interface to do that). OTOH, if you had downloaded the list of versions once, you can trust that each id continues to mean what it meant on creation, so you might want to look only for updates (i.e. newer ids).

If you are suggesting that all such issues should be retargeted at newer versions: certainly not: Many issues were for old versions, and have long been closed. For the open issues, such retargetting would have to go along with a check whether the issue still exists in the newer versions.

Regards, Martin

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