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Sat Sep 20 20:27:34 EDT 2003 · http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2003-September/038177.html

Nick Roberts wrote:
>  > However, what is the fallback behavior when emacs with the new gud.el 
>  > encounters a pdb.py that doesn't have the patch?  That is, will users of 
>  > existing versions of python lose any functionality?
> 
> The messages from clear, enable and disable will be new, so the existing
> behaviour will hold for existing versions of python. However, the message from
> break (and tbreak) will not have changed, but the way gud.el acts on it will.
> So, break will place a breakpoint icon that clear can't remove.
> 
> However, these changes will go on the main trunk of the CVS version of Emacs
> which is unlikely to be released this year. Emacs development is relatively
> slow and the last non-bugfix release was Sepember 2001 (21.1). How often are
> new versions of Python released? Providing the next release of Python is
> before that of Emacs, I dont think there's a problem.
> 

The frequency of Python releases is actually being debated as of this 
moment.  Some have suggested having a release once a year (which seems 
to be winning unanimous support).  If we stick with the old way (I 
couldn't count on it) then who knows; probably year to a year and a half.

As for this thread, is this the proper place for this?  Wouldn't on the 
python-mode mailing list 
(http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-mode) be a better place 
for Emacs-related stuff?  Or is my Vim bias influencing me too much?

-Brett

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