On 16.08.2016 19:44, Steve Dower wrote:
On 16Aug2016 1006, Sven R. Kunze wrote:
Question is: are we in a hurry? Has somebody too little time to wait for
the "Right Thing" to happen?
Not really in a hurry. It's just that I decided to attack a few of the
encoding issues on Windows and this was one of them.
Ideally I'd want to get the change in for 3.6.0b1 so there's plenty of
testing time. But we've been waiting many years for this already so I
guess a few more won't hurt. The current situation of making Linux
developers write different path handling code for Windows vs Linux (or
just use str for paths) is painful for some, but not as bad as the
other issues I want to fix.
I assume one overall goal will be Windows and Linux programs handling
paths the same way which I personally find a very good idea.
And as long as such long-term goals are properly communicated, people
are educated the right way and official deprecation phases are in place,
everything is good, I guess. :)
Sven
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