-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mar 4, 2009, at 2:44 PM, glyph at divmod.com wrote: > Maintaining compatibility with the 2.6.x version of asyncore > presupposes that *someone* has written some software against that > version of asyncore and it might break if they installed an upgrade, > though. If that's the case - if there's even one person who has > written or run any asyncore software against the version in 2.6 - > then I think maintaining bug-for-bug compatibility is important. > > However, my guess - and I'm assuming that JP was thinking the same > thing - is that literally nobody has done that, or even *would* ever > do that, so there's no software anywhere in the world that would > break. asyncore is relatively unpopular (thanks in part to the > excellent alternatives :-)); its major users are the same people who > have already complained. FWIW, I use smtpd.py and a few of the asyncore APIs (.loop(), .socket_map.clear(), and .close_all()) in the Mailman 3 test suite. That only works on Python 2.6 and I don't recall even a hiccup when moving from 2.5 to 2.6. Barry -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Darwin) iQCVAwUBSa7kiXEjvBPtnXfVAQI2BQP/XD71ipSv5OhtdOJt+OF2jbfOyFU/2vPR iJ33g9JJ2A0CvDWXmc81t9hMH3U8waagkXaDUF4r2MNM3JbONSjQGGZqX6X/1UOB XCT+jNOrbRw2VQR0qjrweQ5A8u0Y1zsDo/rD4CXe0K1pFFWLubaU3lVgqEBMBL8r xvf77EMoUuA= =vmM5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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