On Fri, 27 Apr 2007, Joerg Zinke wrote: > hi, > > on-topic: having MODPY_VERSION in PKGNAME would be very nice and > very useful. > > On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 14:55:20 +1000 (EST) > Damien Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri, 27 Apr 2007, Lars Hansson wrote: > > > > > Why are there different versions of python in the tree in the first > > > place? > > > > - Because major revisions of Python are not guaranteed to be 100% > > backwards compatible > > off-topic: ^^^ do you have source that refers to this statement?
The note at the start of http://docs.python.org/lib/module-exceptions.html is one example. I believe the general practice for handling doomed language features and APIs is to raise DeprecationWarning for one major release and then remove them in the next major release. -d
