On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 8:35 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" <mar...@v.loewis.de> wrote: >> The first one is about licensing. >> What I would be doing is basically copy& paste pieces of the python >> stdlib modules (including tests) and, where needed, adjust them so >> that they work with older python versions. >> Would this represent problem? > > You have a "nonexclusive, royalty-free, world-wide license to ..." > "prepare derivative works, distribute, and otherwise use Python alone or in > any derivative version," so: no, this is no problem ... > > "provided, however, that PSF's License Agreement and PSF's notice of > copyright, i.e., "Copyright (c) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, > 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 Python Software Foundation; All Rights Reserved" are > retained in Python alone or in any derivative version prepared by Licensee." > >> My second doubt is about morality. >> Although this might be useful to those people who are forced to use >> older python versions, on the other hand it might represent an >> incentive for not upgrading (and there will be python 3.X features as >> well). > > Don't worry about that. I'm not sure how many people would be interested > in your approach in the first place - if I have to support old versions > of Python, I personally just don't use newer features, and don't even > have the desire to do so. If I want to use newer features, I decide to > drop support for older versions. That I get both with a hack as such > a module is just something that I *personally* would never consider > (there are other reasons for me to consider hacks like this, such as when > supporting multiple versions is just not feasible, but I wouldn't > use a hack for convenience reasons). > > People that do feel the same way as you have probably started their > own emulation layers already, so by publishing your emulation layer, > it's not getting worse. > > Regards, > Martin
Most programs I know have it's own imperfect version of such thing, so I would definitely use it. Not everyone can drop support for older versions of python at will. Cheers, fijal _______________________________________________ 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
