Guido’ s library porting considerations

2008-03-18 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
Hi all, this sounds sensible: * http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=227041: I implore you (especially if you’re maintaining a library that’s used by others) not to make incompatible changes to your API. If you *have* to make API changes, do them *before* you port to 3.0 –

Re: Guido’s library porting considerations

2008-03-18 Thread David Green
On 2008-Mar-18, at 1:42 am, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote: [...] how is he going to tell whether the breakage is due to your API changes or due to his own code not being Py3k-ready? Sounds quite well reasoned to me. Is this something that makes sense to encourage for 5-to-6 migrations of Perl