On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 6:18 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: .. > I don't think it's a good idea to backport visible API changes. > (someone successfully compiling on 2.7.N could then have users > complaining that compilation fails on 2.7.N-1). > Moreover, it doesn't really fix a bug.
That was the argument that I voiced http://bugs.python.org/issue1699259#msg119032, but I cannot really think of the code that would be broken by changing the type of an API function *argument* from char * to const char *. Given that 2.7 is an odd-ball with extended maintenance period, I am not sure "it doesn't really fix a bug" argument is dispositive. I am still -0 on backport, however. _______________________________________________ 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
