Greg Stein wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 15, 2000 at 07:09:01PM -0400, Tim Peters wrote: > > [M.-A. Lemburg] > > > ... > > > Why hasn't anyone objected to simply dropping such an important > > > API without proper backwards compatibility workaround ? > > > > If I knew it was happening, I would have whined. And I expect Guido would > > have screamed. So let's fix it, and move on. I expect patch review isn't > > as good as it used to be because of the clumsy SourceForge interface, so > > nobody noticed. > > That has nothing to do with it. A full discussion occurred here on what to > do. The consensus was reached and the code was changed. I don't believe that Guido reached any consensus on this... he has always tried to make releases as binary compatible as possible (which is a very user friendly way of designing software). > I knew it was happening, and I hardly ever look at the Patch Manager. In > other words, you can't place the blame there. > > Personally, I had no issue with it at all. Python 1.5 extensions are not > compatible with Python 1.6. We knew that already. So if they have to > recompile anyways, then they are going to pick up the macro redefinition. Sure they are... what makes you think that 1.5 extensions won't work with 1.6 ? Ok, you get annoying warnings, but it's still better as temporary solution than putting out a new version of Python which won't work together with most existing extensions simply due to linker problems. > No big deal. Ok, Greg, you pay the support bill ;-) > > > The situation on Windows is already bad enough with extensions > > > compiled against 1.5 causing a segfault... > > Unrelated FUD. Why unrelated ? Why FUD ? The problem is real (until we check in the fix). Anyway, enough ranting ;-) ... I'll review Thomas Wouters patch and then check it in. -- Marc-Andre Lemburg ______________________________________________________________________ Business: http://www.lemburg.com/ Python Pages: http://www.lemburg.com/python/
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