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

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Mon May 19 14:45:05 CEST 2008

"Nick Coghlan" <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote in message news:4831704D.1060201 at gmail.com... | 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).

For what little it's worth, I was surprised too that the 3.0 renames were backported as thr default versions. It strikes me as possibly a 'bridge too far' ;-).

tjr

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