Le lundi 07 juin 2010 à 17:16 -0500, Ian Bicking a écrit :
I offered examples, you were too lazy to read the changelogs, your sweeping declaration does not seem justified.
Sure, but my sweeping declaration is justified by the fact that I'm a daily contributor to Python core and know what kinds of things happen here.
What's New in Python 2.7: [snip]
Your list seems to forget lots of module-specific improvements. There are many more things in http://docs.python.org/dev/whatsnew/2.7.html#new-and-improved-modules , and most of them aren't "backported" in any fashion.
So in summary, of 17 additions which seemed "backportable" to me (not counting 3 modules that seemed tied to language features): * 4 were not backported * 3 have defunct or ambiguous backports * 10 were backported
Of course this all depends on your definition of "backportable". If you remove that arbitrary conditional, the fact remains that most improvements, small or big, don't get backported. Regards Antoine.