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

Guido van Rossum guido@python.org
Tue, 09 Apr 2002 21:09:54 -0400

The cure for the pain is the same as for any other third-party module: tie newer releases to newer Python versions.

But that's exactly what's unacceptable in theis case: newer versions of PyXML provide new PyXML features, and Python users who wish to use the new PyXML features should not have to upgrade to the latest and greatest Python. That would cause the kind of dependency nightmares we just heard about with CPAN (and which are also common with RPMs in my experience -- I recently had to upgrade a printer driver and it was a true nightmare).

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)