Message 142387 - Python tracker

Message142387

Author	loewis
Recipients	Arfrever, Ramchandra Apte, amaury.forgeotdarc, barry, djc, dmalcolm, doko, eric.araujo, ezio.melotti, foom, gagern, jwilk, lemburg, loewis, petri.lehtinen, pitrou, python-dev, r.david.murray, rosslagerwall, sandro.tosi, vstinner
Date	2011-08-18.18:00:35
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Message-id	<4E4D5342.8030400@v.loewis.de>
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> Then, let's just advise that all code follow the same path and use > sys.platform.startswith() (which is really not a difficult change to > make). Antoine, please accept that people want better backwards compatibility than just recommendations how to rewrite applications. They want the code to continue to work unmodified. The proposed mechanism achieves this for the bug fix releases.

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> Then, let's just advise that all code follow the same path and use
> sys.platform.startswith() (which is really not a difficult change to
> make).

Antoine, please accept that people want better backwards compatibility
than just recommendations how to rewrite applications. They want the
code to continue to work *unmodified*.

The proposed mechanism achieves this for the bug fix releases.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2011-08-18 18:00:35	loewis	set	recipients: + loewis, lemburg, barry, doko, amaury.forgeotdarc, gagern, foom, pitrou, vstinner, jwilk, djc, ezio.melotti, eric.araujo, Arfrever, r.david.murray, dmalcolm, sandro.tosi, rosslagerwall, python-dev, petri.lehtinen, Ramchandra Apte
2011-08-18 18:00:35	loewis	link	issue12326 messages
2011-08-18 18:00:35	loewis	create