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On Sat, 22 Sep 2012 03:44:55 +1000, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general:

> The way I see it, a Python minor release shouldn't normally be a
> problem to an active developer, but is too big a change to push
> quietly to active scripts. That's a lot smaller than a release of a

	Before my lay-off I'd been tasked to examine a version complication
on systems at work.

	I'd produced a few scripts under Python 2.3... They /should/ be
workable under any later 2.x version (the only externals were [at the
time] ctypes, PMW, and maybe one other library). BUT -- out of fear the
organization kept installing 2.3 [and its a good thing I'd kept a CD of
my original installation disk for the scripts].

	Problem -- one system had a script written by someone else that used
Python 2.2 AND had a custom binary DLL. My scripts couldn't be
downgraded to 2.2 as they /did/ rely on features new in 2.3.

	And I couldn't find the source code for that custom DLL to enable
building for a newer Python. Don't know if they ever tracked down the
author of that program to find out how to upgrade it.

	Sole reason they needed this unification? They were adding that 2.2
system to the ClearCase controlled network -- and my 2.3 scripts were
the ones that automated the loading of specified "builds" from ClearCase
onto the runtime hardware.
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