On 7/12/06, Armin Rigo <arigo at tunes.org> wrote: > > Hi Brett, > > On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 06:05:21PM -0700, Brett Cannon wrote: > > It is the last point in the first paragraph on time.strftime() > discussing > > what changed in Python 2.4 as to what the change was. It's also in > > Misc/NEWS . Basically the guy didn't read the release notes or the docs > to > > see why that changed and that it was legitimate and needed for > stability. > > Surely everybody should read and think carefully about each (longish) > NEWS file for each software package whenever they update their machines > or switch to one with newer software than they last used. > > Or if they cannot bother, surely they should read at least Python's? Obviously I don't expect people to read all of the docs; I know I don't. But when something I am using starts to act differently in a program (and especially a programming language), I do do at least a little investigating. I don't expect people to read Misc/NEWS upfront, but if something suddnely starts to act differently I would expect them to at least try to figure it out and hopefully report a bug if it is one. I guess I'm going to side with Greg Black on his blog entry. > Only two breakages is certainly nice, and I know that we all try quite > hard to minimize that; that's probably still two breakages too much. As Neal said, we are not perfect; bugs happen. If we all gave up on a piece of software after two bugs we would not be able to turn our computers. =) -Brett -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/attachments/20060712/f1d7446b/attachment.htm
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