On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 11:47:20PM -0700, Benjamin Peterson wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 22, 2016, at 04:44, Victor Stinner wrote: > > 2016-09-22 8:02 GMT+02:00 Benjamin Peterson <benja...@python.org>: > > > Just dump the compat macros in Python 4.0 I think. > > > > Please don't. Python 3 was so painful because we decided to make > > millions of tiny backward incompatible changes. To have a smooth > > Python 4.0 release, we should only remove things which were already > > deprecated since at least 2 cycles, and well documented as deprecated. > > I'm being flippant here because of the triviality of the change. Anyone > using Py_VA_COPY or Py_MEMCPY can fix their code in a backwards and > forwards compatible manner in 7 seconds with a sed command.
Sorry, I haven't been following this thread in detail, so perhaps I've misunderstood. Are you assuming that anyone who is building Python from source is automatically able to diagnose C level build failures and known how to fix them using sed? -- Steve _______________________________________________ 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
