[Python-Dev] Module renaming and pickle mechanisms (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Mon May 19 14:19:25 CEST 2008

M.-A. Lemburg wrote:

I don't think that an administrative problem such as forward- porting patches to 3.x warrants breakage in the 2.x branch.

After all, the renaming was approached for Python 3.0 and not 2.6 because it introduces major breakage. AFAIR, the discussion on the stdlib-sig also didn't include the plan to backport such changes to 2.6. Otherwise, we would have hashed them out there.

I think MAL is 100% correct here (and I expect Raymond will chime in to support him at some point as well).

Taking the time to fix out mistake may mean we need to do another alpha rather than being able to go into the betas as planned, but I think that would be a much better option than breaking any 2.x code that relies on module staying the same across releases.

Cheers, Nick.

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