2009/10/28 Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net>: > <skip <at> pobox.com> writes: >> >> >> So 2.7 support will for the most part be a case not of supporting >> >> Python versions, but Python *users*. >> >> Antoine> That's still not a good reason to backport nonlocal. The same >> Antoine> reasoning could be used to backport new features to the 2.6 >> Antoine> branch after all. >> >> No, because 2.6 is in feature freeze (bug fixes only). 2.7 is the current >> version of 2.x where new features are allowed to be added. > > That was precisely my point.
Then I don't understand what you are saying. Obviously we shouldn't backport to the 2.6 branch, it's in bugfix mode. This is about 2.7. I don't see what 2.6 has to do with it. > There are development practices which mitigate the > idea that backporting is always helpful to the user. And those are? -- Lennart Regebro: Python, Zope, Plone, Grok http://regebro.wordpress.com/ +33 661 58 14 64 _______________________________________________ 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
