[Python-Dev] decimal module portability to 2.3? (original) (raw)

Raymond Hettinger python at rcn.com
Fri Aug 20 05:33:25 CEST 2004

Raymond> Yes, I've been keeping it Py2.3 compatible and periodically Raymond> test it on 2.3 just to make sure.

Raymond> Am hesitant to introduce this as a specific, on-going Raymond> restriction to the code, but I don't want to throw-away 2.3 Raymond> compatibility unless there is a darned good offsetting gain. Raymond, Given that you've expended effort to keep decimal 2.3-compatible I sort of doubt at this point that something will be done to make it incompatible with 2.3 before 2.4 is released. Might I suggest an addition to PEP 291 like this: Package/Module Maintainer(s) Python Version Notes -------------- ------------- -------------- ----- ... decimal Raymond, et al 2.3 [2] ... with note 2 being something like: Compatibility with 2.3 maintained until at least 2.5 is released. The thought there is that after 2.4 is released no new language features or modules should be added to 2.4.n (n > 0) which you would want to use in the decimal module. If 2.4 is released with a decimal module that is 2.3-compatible, maintaining that compatibility until 2.5 is released shouldn't be too difficult. The above would satisfy me.

Done.

Raymond

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