-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Guido van Rossum wrote: > On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Tres Seaver <tsea...@palladion.com> wrote: >> How is anybody supposed to >> write a package which sits atop a library like asyncore in a fashion >> portable across Python versions? The changes to the implementation in >> 2.6 (there is no real API) can't be reconciled, AFAICT. > > This seems to be the crux of the problem with asyncore, ever since it > was added to the stdlib -- there's no real API, so every change > potentially breaks something. I wish we could start over with a proper > design under a new name. Maybe packages requiring asyncore > functionality should just copy the version of asyncore they like into > their own three and stick with that.
That was the very solution Chris came up with earlier today: "stick a fork in it, its done!" Tres. - -- =================================================================== Tres Seaver +1 540-429-0999 tsea...@palladion.com Palladion Software "Excellence by Design" http://palladion.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFJraty+gerLs4ltQ4RAjBSAJ4niecZJusKY4XiioJ18mdhdMixxQCfWvcQ Dwkh1ZBuxtGRbhUI4qy96Sc= =ms0I -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ 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
