On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 3:25 PM, Larry Hastings <la...@hastings.org> wrote: > M.-A. Lemburg wrote: > > Just as reminder of the process we have in place for such changes: > Please discuss any major breakage on python-dev before checking in > the patch. > > > I'm aware this is a good idea. I simply didn't consider this a major > breakage. Recompiling against the 2.7 header files fixes it for everybody. > (Except external users of pyexpat, if any exist. Google doesn't show any, > though this is not proof that they don't exist.) > > If you suggest that any breakage with previous versions is worth mentioning, > no matter how small, then I'll remember that in the future. Certainly the > Python community has had many thrilling and dynamic conversations over > minutae, so I guess it wouldn't be that surprising if this were true.
I'm curious what is considered reasonable/unreasonable breakage. If this breakage just requires a recompile, then doesn't it just introduce an ABI incompatibility? Aren't those allowed every minor (point) release? Or do people believe that this is more than an ABI change? Reid _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
