[Python-Dev] MS VC 7 offer
Fred L. Drake, Jr.
fdrake@acm.org
Tue, 6 May 2003 15:57:04 -0400
Brian Quinlan writes:
> 1. 3rd party extension developers will have to switch very quickly to be
> ready for the 2.3 release
A very real issue, to be sure.
> 2. Some 3rd party extension developers may have already released
> binaries for Python 2.3, based on the understanding that there won't
> be any additional API changes after the first beta (baring a
> disaster).
I'm not convinced that's a huge problem, though it could be an
annoyance.
> 3. I believe that the installer normally preserves site-packages when
> doing an upgrade? If so, the user is going to be left with extension
> modules that won't work.
Yes, but site-packages is specific to the major.minor version of
Python, so it would only bite people going from an alpha/beta to a
final release, not from major.minor-1. Is this really an issue?
-Fred
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