On 9/8/06, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anthony Baxter wrote: > > On Friday 08 September 2006 19:19, Steve Holden wrote: > > > >>But it *is* a desirable, albeit new, feature, so I'm surprised that you > >>don't appear to perceive it as such for a downstream release. > > > > > > Point releases (2.x.1 and suchlike) are absolutely not for new features. > > They're for bugfixes, only. It's possible that this could be considered a > > bugfix, but as I said right now I'm dubious. > > > OK, in that case I'm going to argue that the current behaviour is buggy. > > I suppose your point is that, assuming the patch is correct (and it > seems the authors are relying on it for production purposes in tens of > thousands of installations), it doesn't change the behaviour of the > interpreter in existing cases, and therefore it is providing a new feature. > > I don't regard this as the provision of a new feature but as the removal > of an unnecessary restriction (which I would prefer to call a bug). If > it was *documented* somewhere that Unicode paths aren't legal I would > find your arguments more convincing. As things stand new Python users > would, IMHO, be within their rights to assume that arbitrary directories > could be added to the path without breakage. > > Ultimately, your call, I guess. Would it help if I added "inability to > import from Unicode directories" as a bug? Or would you prefer to change > the documentation to state that some directories can't be used as path > elements <0.3 wink>?
We've all heard the arguments for both sides enough times I think. IMO it's the call of the release managers. Board members ought to trust the release managers and not apply undue pressure. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ 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
