On Tue, Dec 7, 2021 at 9:00 AM Joao S. O. Bueno <jsbu...@python.org.br> wrote:
> Sorry for stepping in - but I am seeing too many arguments in favour > of the rules because "they are the rules", and just Victor arguing with > what is met in the "real world". > > But if this update can be done by a simple search/replace on the C source > of projects, > I can only perceive two scenarios this will affect: well maintained > projects, > for which it is fixable in minutes, and stale packages, no longer > released > that "happen to work" when someone downloads and builds for new > Python versions. In these cases, the build will fail. If the person trying > the build can't fix it, but can take the error to a proper, or high > visibility, > forum, someone will be able to come to the fix, leading to renewed > visibility for the otherwise stale package. > It sounds like you (like probably many others) don't quite understand why "the rules" exist. Please trust me that what you perceive as simple updates, is not so simple when you take the whole ecosystem of dependencies into account. You may recall the long transition from Python 2 to 3. This was so painful in part because the core dev team (led by myself) was similarly optimistic about "oh, people can easily fix the few small things that will crop up". In practice, things like this take a very long time to fix everywhere, as people are waiting for their dependencies to solve the issue first before they can even start testing, and so on. (For example, many libraries still don't have wheels for Python 3.10, even though it was released over two months ago and 3.10.1 is already out.) -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) *Pronouns: he/him **(why is my pronoun here?)* <http://feministing.com/2015/02/03/how-using-they-as-a-singular-pronoun-can-change-the-world/>
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