[Python-Dev] Python 2.7.7. on Windows

Mike Miller python-dev at mgmiller.net
Tue Apr 29 13:14:42 CEST 2014


On 04/29/2014 03:07 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
 > I have no objection *at all* to making the change in the next feature
 > release.  I think the "good citizenship" argument is more than
 > sufficient, ...
 > I'm questioning whether it is a sufficient reason to make a backwards-
 > incompatible change in a bugfix release.

Normally I would completely agree.

However, this bug has been shitcanned for a decade.  This is the last chance to 
fix this bug in a branch that's going to be supported until 2020!  An unknown 
portion of Python 2.x users will never upgrade to 3.

Do we continue on this path in good conscience for at least six more years?

-Mike


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