[Python-Dev] PEP 3121, 384 Refactoring Issues (original) (raw)

Ethan Furman ethan at stoneleaf.us
Fri Jul 11 02:31:09 CEST 2014

On 07/10/2014 04:57 PM, Alexander Belopolsky wrote:

On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 2:59 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote:

I'm just curious as to why there are 54 open issues after both of these PEPs have been accepted and 384 is listed as finished. Did we hit some unforeseen technical problem which stalled development? I tried to bring some sanity to that effort by opening a "meta issue": http://bugs.python.org/issue15787 My enthusiasm, however, vanished after I reviewed the refactoring for the datetime module: http://bugs.python.org/issue15390 My main objections are to following PEP 384 <http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0384/> (Stable ABI) within stdlib modules. I see little benefit for the stdlib (which is shipped fresh with every new version of Python) from following those guidelines.

If we aren't going to implement the changes (and I agree there's little value for the stdlib to do so), let's mark the issues as "won't fix" and close them.

And thanks, Mark, for bringing it up.

-- Ethan

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