On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, Brett Cannon wrote: > On 9/20/05, John J Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 19 Sep 2005, Florian Weimer wrote: > > > > > The real problem is that you can ditch most extension modules. 8-( > > [...] > > > > *Is* that a showstopper for Python 3.0, though? > > Who knows. I bet Guido doesn't even know how much breakage he is > going to want to push. Some people have rather strongly pointed out > (usually after I have proposed something), breaking stuff without a > good reason is not worth the added level of breakage for when people > try to update code to Python 3.0.
Oh, absolutely. > Completely changing how garbage > collection works is not exactly a minor thing and there is the > possibility it won't pan out. It would really suck for everyone to > have to learn an entirely new way of handling garbage collection and > have there not be a perk for doing so, especially since this kind of > change will not be directly visible to the language itself. I didn't intend to refer to garbage collection in particular, but to removing the GIL, thus breaking extension modules (perhaps in a less-drastic way than implied by the copying garbage-collection proposal). John _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
