[Python-Dev] Bugfix releases should not change APIs (original) (raw)
Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Sat May 29 05:47:30 CEST 2010
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On 29/05/10 09:03, Terry Reedy wrote:
After filing http://bugs.python.org/issue8840 I was rather shocked to be told that the code-breaking and policy-violating change was intentional because being 'more consistent with other file-handling APIs out there' was somehow more important than consistency within version releases. It also seems to me that discussion of code-breaking API changes like this should involve more than one user and one developer. See http://bugs.python.org/issue6939
For the record, I have added links to Guido's python-dev post to both of these tracker issues.
Cheers, Nick.
-- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan at gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia
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