[stdlib-sig] Changing the 2.6 renames to not break pickle

[Brett Cannon]

On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 2:51 AM, M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> wrote:
> On 2008-05-20 05:40, Brett Cannon wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 5:31 PM, Raymond Hettinger <python at rcn.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> It has been said many times that the goal is not have the exact same code
>>> run
>>> under both 2.6 and 3.0.  I'm not sure how this is notion is rearing its
>>> head
>>> again.
>>>
>>
>> You know what, we will just do it your way without the new names in
>> 2.6 because my stress level just can't take being bothered with adding
>> new stubs. We will just revert the patches that applied the new names
>> in 2.6 and be done with it.
>
> Sorry, Brett for the wasted time and thank you for reverting the
> changes.
>

I actually didn't do any of the renames (been focusing on the
deprecations); Benjamin, Alexandre, and Georg did most of the rename
commits. My stress comes from feeling responsible for the whole
process.

> I'm sure that a lot of Python 2.6 users will make this happy
> (even if most will probably never know).

No, they probably will never know. No one every staid this wasn't a
thankless job.

-Brett