On 14/08/2006, at 12:29 AM, Jim Gallacher wrote:
Anyway, if we can make a decision that we will make new importer the
default in 3.3 that would be great and would allow me to progress
with
other
ideas. When I have raised this question before though, never
really got any
responses or agreement on whether to proceed with making it the
default.
Graham
I think part of the problem is that you are the only person that has
taken the time to think through the import mechanism. It makes it
difficult for the rest of us when we haven't made the effort to
understand the deep magic. It's unfair to put that kind of pressure on
you, but to some extent that is a result of a fairly small developer
community.
Is the importer change big enough to warrant a jump to 4.0, in
order to
indicate that this is a *major* change?
I'm not totally sure, but whether it is called 3.3 or 4.0 we will
still have to
document the changes very well and will have to educate people. Most
people will probably blindly install it anyway even if called 4.0 and
not
consider how it may be different.
Either way (3.3 or 4.0 as the next release) I'm in favour of
turning on
the new importer by default. As long as users have the option of
falling
back to the old importer if things go pear-shaped I think we'll be OK.
In which case calling it 3.3 is probably not a big deal, as the
choice will
be there to restore the old behaviour. If it was an all or nothing
change,
then would definitely need to be called 4.0.
Not turning it on by default now means that won't happen for another
year (if past history for releases is any idication). If it's just
optional in 3.3 my guess is most users *won't* turn it on, so we
really
won't be that much further ahead.
Too true. :-(
If and when we do turn it on by default we should make a much more
vigorous attempt to solicit testing feedback from application
developers, beyond getting people to just run the unit tests.
Also want to probably interact with major packages which use mod_python
and have them explicitly check to make sure everything still works.
Graham
