On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 1:23 PM, Carl Friedrich Bolz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ondrej Certik wrote: >> On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 5:48 PM, Maciej Fijalkowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >>> I'm working on 2.5 compatibility branch right now. Due to incompatible >>> changes, I suggest that we say we don't provide --pyversion option any >>> more and simply compile 2.5 compatible interpreter. I don't really see >>> benefits of providing 2.4 right now (after a brief discussion with >>> Armin). >>> >>> If anyone objects, please do that now. >> >> Just a curious question --- what kind of features are python2.4 only >> that doesn't work in python2.5? I though that except hashing, >> python2.5 is backwards compatible. > > I don't think there are any (big ones, at least). But that's just a > further argument for removing the --pyversion option, isn't it? > > Cheers, > > Carl Friedrich
For example incompatible module APIs. They're kind of the same from user level, but the way they interact inside (for example sre and _sre) has changed. Cheers, fijal _______________________________________________ [email protected] http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev
