2 Jun
2017
2 Jun
'17
11:29 p.m.
On 6/2/2017 12:21 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote:
On Jun 03, 2017, at 02:10 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
The benefit of making any backport a private API is that it would mean we weren't committing to support that API for general use: it would be supported *solely* for the use case discussed in the PEP (i.e. helping to advance the development of PEP 543 without breaking pip bootstrapping in the process).
That sounds like a good compromise. My own major objection was in exposing a new public API in Python 2.7, which would clearly be a new feature.
Which would likely be seen by someone as justifying other requests to add to 2.7 'just this one more essential new feature' ;-). -- Terry Jan Reedy