> On Jan 22, 2014, at 6:58 AM, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 11:15 PM, Donald Stufft <don...@stufft.io> wrote: >> Do you really think those people would be making the same complaints >> if they could restore the previous behavior with a simple boolean flag >> delivered either via environment variable or in their own code? > > You assume that it's easy to tweak the code. From personal experience > just today I can say that this isn't always the case. I was asked a > question about an internal program that had been in use since the late > 1990s, and which had originally been written to work with Netscape > Navigator and had been updated to work with Firefox, but not Chrome. > The original author is still around, but it's too much hassle to get > that code dug into, so it's far easier just to accept a small issue > with Chrome (since the program's not used very often anyway). But if > Chrome had completely broken that program, the solution would simply > be "keep using Firefox", not "fix the program" - it's not considered a > bug. > > Now, maybe it wouldn't be a problem if the fix is an environment > variable, but imagine a thousand-computer deployment and you have to > tweak the environment on all of them. Feel like doing that just > because the newest Python needs it? Not so much. >
What's the bet that that application will be ported to python 3.4/3.5 if this is the case? I'd say approaching 0, which is ok. > ChrisA > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: > https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/jnoller%40gmail.com _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com