2007/10/2, Mark Dickinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> difficulties. In particular, some cases of three-argument pow that
> previously worked (giving arguably nonsensical results) will now raise an
> exception. To be honest, I'd be quite surprised to find that *anyone* was
If previously it gave a arg
On 10/2/07, Facundo Batista <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> 2007/10/2, Raymond Hettinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> > Yes! We have guaranteed that spec updates are to be treated as bug
> fixes and backported. This is especially important in this case
> > because other errors have been fixed and the
> If there are any plans for another 2.4 release, then yes; otherwise, why
> bother.
Please don't make any functional changes to 2.4. There may be additional
releases, but (IMO) they should be security releases only, i.e. contain
no functional changes whatsoever (unless they fix a security issue)
>> Yes! We have guaranteed that spec updates are to be treated as bug fixes
>> and backported. This is especially important in this
>> case
>> because other errors have been fixed and the test cases have grown.
>
> Perfect! I'll backport it to 2.5... what about 2.4?
If there are any plans for
2007/10/2, Raymond Hettinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Yes! We have guaranteed that spec updates are to be treated as bug fixes and
> backported. This is especially important in this case
> because other errors have been fixed and the test cases have grown.
Perfect! I'll backport it to 2.5... wha
> Decimal is a pretty stand alone module, and I'm absolutely sure that
> just backporting the whole module and its testcases will fix a lot of
> problems, and Py2.5 users will have new functionality, but is this ok?
Yes! We have guaranteed that spec updates are to be treated as bug fixes and
bac
People:
I don't decide myself what to do in this case.
The Decimal module appeared in 2.4, and received just slight
modifications for 2.5. Since it appeared, a "just download and use it"
version was available for Python 2.3 users.
But for 2.6, it was fully renewed. Not only was updated to the la
