[Distutils] Library instability on PyPI and impact on OpenStack

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Tue Mar 5 14:52:06 CET 2013


On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 11:28 PM, Daniel Holth <dholth at gmail.com> wrote:
> You will be amazed at how much backwards compatible cruft some
> developers will keep around rather than endure the psychological
> anguish of bumping the major version number.

We also have Python 3 to hit them over the head with. "Look how much
pain the core devs put everyone through with the Python 3 transition!
Do you want that for your users?! Do you?!" :)

Cheers,
Nick.

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Nick Coghlan   |   ncoghlan at gmail.com   |   Brisbane, Australia


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