Re: Python extension commands in git - request for policy change
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Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
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- Nov 25, 2012, 21:25 UTC
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On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 6:36 PM, Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> wrote:
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> Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>: >> Of course, but there are experts in C and shell around, not so many >> python experts. So if somebody sneaks in a python program that makes >> use of features specific to python 2.7, I doubt anybody would notice. > > I would.
And are you going to be around to spot them? It seems my patches for git-remote-hg slipped by your watch, because it seems they use stuff specific to python 2.7.
>> And if they did, I doubt that would be reason enough for rejection, >> supposing that porting to 2.6 would be difficult enough. > > In cases like that, backporting is usually pretty easy. Been there, done that.
Exactly. Why would you reject something you can fix easily?
-- Felipe Contreras