[Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] r86264 - python/branches/release27-maint/Lib/distutils/sysconfig.py

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Sun, 07 Nov 2010 09:01:22 +0100
"Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:
> 
> > If I were going to maintain 2.7
> > for several years, I would want to have the benefit of gradual
> > improvements that make maintainance easier.
> 
> I question whether cleanup on a maintenance branch makes maintenance
> easier.

It certainly does when using svnmerge. You can have many merge
conflicts if cleanups on the dev branch aren't backported to the bugfix
branches.

Regards

Antoine.