Le mardi 22 février 2011 à 18:30 -0500, Alexander Belopolsky a écrit : > 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 *.
To quote the message above: someone successfully compiling on 2.7.N could then have users complaining that compilation fails on 2.7.N-1. (note: *N-1*) _______________________________________________ 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
