On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 1:12 PM, Brett Cannon <br...@python.org> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 12:03, Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote: >> A problem with that is that we regularly make matching improvements to >> upload.py and the server-side code it talks to. While we tend to be >> conservative in these changes (because we don't control what version >> of upload.py people use) it would be a pain to maintain backwards >> compatibility with a version that was distributed in Misc/ two years >> ago -- that's kind of outside our horizon. > > Well, I would assume people are working from a checkout. Patches from > an outdated checkout simply would fail and that's fine by me.
Ok, but that's an extra barrier for contributions. Lots of people when asked for a patch just modify their distro in place and you can count yourself lucky if they send you a diff from a clean copy. But maybe with Hg it's less of a burden to ask people to use a checkout. > How often do we even get patches generated from a downloaded copy of > Python? Is it enough to need to worry about this? I used to get these frequently. I don't know what the experience of the current crop of core developers is though, so maybe my gut feelings here are outdated. -- --Guido van Rossum (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
