Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: What I think 1.1 gold needs:

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

>>>>> "Miles" == Miles Bader <address@hidden> writes:

    Miles> On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 11:59:51PM +0900, Stephen
    Miles> J. Turnbull wrote:

    >> For what it's worth, python-dev has this discussion
    >> perennially, and after the releases of 2.3.1 and 2.3.2 in early
    >> autumn, the release manager remarked that he'd had a fair
    >> number of "thank you" mails, and that most didn't mention
    >> features at all, but of those which did, all said something
    >> equivalent to "Thank God you added no new features."

    Miles> I presume they must have been talking about features that
    Miles> are in some way interface-incompatible because otherwise
    Miles> why would they care enough to mention it in such strong
    Miles> terms?

You presume incorrectly.

They meant "Read my lips:  NO NEW FEATURES IN MINOR RELEASES, PLEASE."

As to why, that's simple.  In the past, their users were enraged by
bugs in their applications which were tickled by interface-compatible
new features in minor releases of Python.  (The kind of "bug" I mean
is mostly depending, for performance reasons, on implementation
behavior deliberately not specified in the API.)


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