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 19:14:13 +0200 Organization: Decebal Computing Lines: 34 Message-ID: <87mvysxe6y.fsf@Equus.decebal.nl> References: <87y4icxh4r.fsf@Equus.decebal.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="528adfd6ad074c92fdc6a7f8fb9e23d8"; logging-data="13337"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX189QeAtBQR46AI15NggAmgPk8yrpMRuVbY=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:SJgJLR1Qjn9EBYXhX3r2vxqYmnw= sha1:moBjsHlPy5ohAHfYOZKdF/3wX9A= X-Homepage: http://www.decebal.nl/ Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:94137 On Sunday 19 Jul 2015 18:38 CEST, Mark Lawrence wrote: > On 19/07/2015 17:10, 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? >> > > That has to be the worst analogy I've ever read. We are discussing > backporting working patches, *NOT* having to go through the whole > shooting match from scratch. You think so? I think that a lot of people who are using 2.7 would like to have the fixes. They know how to use Python, but they would not now how to implement a patch. That is why I made this comment. Comments are (almost) always an exaggeration. When someone tells me: “I have been 1.000 times to the store to get my money back”, most of the time I would not take this literally, but understand it means very often. -- Cecil Westerhof Senior Software Engineer LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof