Path: csiph.com!optima2.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!1.eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.fsmpi.rwth-aachen.de!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Cecil Westerhof Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: Should non-security 2.7 bugs be fixed? Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2015 22:05:09 +0200 Organization: Decebal Computing Lines: 27 Message-ID: <87egk3ykui.fsf@Equus.decebal.nl> References: <87y4icxh4r.fsf@Equus.decebal.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="528adfd6ad074c92fdc6a7f8fb9e23d8"; logging-data="19067"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+N/46TXUeZ7T/mPF/KvC9ETjCkwUzYCmc=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-Homepage: http://www.decebal.nl/ Cancel-Lock: sha1:36GdQKNrv0xh7a2lTcxAX2v/mG4= sha1:79WZxvyqQuK6MgLBgXKbHush/j8= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:94159 On Sunday 19 Jul 2015 21:01 CEST, Ian Kelly wrote: > On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 10:10 AM, Cecil Westerhof wrote: >> On Sunday 19 Jul 2015 15:42 CEST, Mark Lawrence wrote: >> >>> On 19/07/2015 03:13, Terry Reedy wrote: >>>> On 7/18/2015 7:50 PM, Devin Jeanpierre wrote: >>>>> to 2.7, surely bug fixes are also allowed? >>>> >>>> Of course, allowed. But should they be made, and if so, by who? >>> >>> The people who want the fixes. >> >> Babies want clean diapers. So babies have to change diapers >> themselves? > > Poor analogy. Babies need others to change their diapers for them > because they're not capable of doing it for themselves. That is why I think it is good analogy. I think that most of the users of 2.7 who would be delighted with fixes would have no idea how to get those fixes into 2.7. -- Cecil Westerhof Senior Software Engineer LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof