From: Felipe Contreras Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2012 21:25:51 GMT Subject: Re: Python extension commands in git - request for policy change Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20121125173607.GB32394@thyrsus.com> On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 6:36 PM, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > Felipe Contreras : >> 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