[Python-Dev] API for the new sysconfig module

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Sat Dec 11 15:17:03 CET 2010


On Sat, 11 Dec 2010 12:55:25 +1000
Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 12:44 PM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:
> > On 12/10/2010 4:59 PM, R. David Murray wrote:
> >
> >> Like Éric, I'm not sure what the implications of the existing module
> >> having been released in 2.7 and 3.2 beta are in terms of making such an
> >> API change.
> >
> > I am with Raymond on this: the purpose of betas is so we can test *and* make
> > changes. No one should base production software on a beta release.
> 
> It's also the key difference between betas and release candidates.

Seems that both you and Terry have missed the part where the sysconfig
API is already part of 2.7, though.

Regards

Antoine.




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