On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 09:28:35AM -0400, Jesse Noller wrote: > On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 9:18 AM, Michael Foord <mich...@voidspace.org.uk> > wrote: > > > > It looks like it will be something covered at the language summit, but an > > open space is a good idea. Backwards compatibility is a *big* problem for > > any major refactoring though. > > > > Michael > > > > Yup, language summit. I'm hoping to cover some amount of this in a > pending talk proposal I have in the pycon system too.
One interesting thought for backwards compatibility -- why not take all of the PyPI packages and try importing and/or testing them across versions, and then trying to build automatic classifiers to highlight the "interesting" breakages? A first pass filter would be "breakages we know about" vs "breakages we don't." Then you could build these breakages into a compatibility diagnostics package. Sounds like a fun PyCon sprint to me... --titus -- C. Titus Brown, c...@msu.edu _______________________________________________ stdlib-sig mailing list stdlib-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/stdlib-sig
