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Thu Nov 4 01:03:56 CET 2004 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-November/049756.html

On Nov 3, 2004, at 18:26, Martin v. Löwis wrote:

> Bob Ippolito wrote:
>> Argh!  It's nothing crazy, it removes incorrect linker flags and 
>> delegates two Mac-specific API functions to where they belong.
>
> I think Brett's thinking is that if this was a serious problem,
> it should have been fixed months ago. The fact that nobody bothered
> pushing that change before 2.4b1 indicates that the problem is not
> serious. As an incompatible change that fixes a non-serious problem,
> it shouldn't be applied before 2.5, in accordance with PEP 5
> (which says that an incompatible change must see a deprecation first).

The thing is that the incompatible change is going in, but the 
compatible changes (the reason for the incompatible change) are not.  
This is very peculiar.

-bob

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