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Re: Maintaining a backported module

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Date Wed, 23 Oct 2013 23:30:17 -0700
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On 10/23/2013 09:54 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
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> I'm looking for advice on best practices for doing so. Any suggestions
> for managing bug fixes and enhancements to two separate code-bases
> without them diverging too much?

Confining your code to the intersection of 2.7 and 3.x is probably going to be the easiest thing to do as 2.7 has a 
bunch of 3.x features.

Sadly, when I backported Enum I was targeting 2.5 - 3.x because I have systems still running 2.5.  That was *not* a fun 
experience.  :(

--
~Ethan~

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Maintaining a backported module Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2013-10-24 04:54 +0000
  Re: Maintaining a backported module Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2013-10-24 16:09 +1100
    Re: Maintaining a backported module Metallicow <metaliobovinus@gmail.com> - 2013-10-23 22:46 -0700
      Re: Maintaining a backported module Metallicow <metaliobovinus@gmail.com> - 2013-10-30 03:32 -0700
  Re: Maintaining a backported module Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2013-10-23 22:38 -0700
  Re: Maintaining a backported module Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2013-10-23 23:30 -0700
  Re: Maintaining a backported module Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2013-10-24 17:59 +1100
    Re: Maintaining a backported module Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2013-10-24 09:38 +0000
      Re: Maintaining a backported module Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2013-10-24 21:01 +1100
  Re: Maintaining a backported module Antoon Pardon <antoon.pardon@rece.vub.ac.be> - 2013-10-24 09:00 +0200
  Re: Maintaining a backported module Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-10-24 09:37 +0100
  Re: Maintaining a backported module Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2013-10-24 06:36 -0400
    Re: Maintaining a backported module Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-10-24 11:46 +0000
      Re: Maintaining a backported module rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2013-10-24 05:25 -0700
      Re: Maintaining a backported module Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2013-10-24 13:46 -0400
      Re: Maintaining a backported module Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-10-24 16:37 -0400
      Python Coverage: testing a program (was: Maintaining a backported module) Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2013-10-25 07:54 +1100
      Re: Python Coverage: testing a program Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-10-24 22:55 +0100
      Re: Python Coverage: testing a program Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-10-24 18:36 -0400
      Re: Python Coverage: testing a program Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2013-10-24 15:28 -0700
      Re: Python Coverage: testing a program Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2013-10-25 10:27 +1100
      Re: Python Coverage: testing a program Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2013-10-25 10:30 +1100
      Re: Python Coverage: testing a program Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2013-10-24 19:53 -0400
      Re: Python Coverage: testing a program Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-10-24 19:55 -0400
      Re: Maintaining a backported module Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com> - 2013-10-25 08:49 +0100
  Re: Maintaining a backported module Christian Heimes <christian@python.org> - 2013-10-24 12:47 +0200
  Re: Maintaining a backported module Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2013-10-24 12:42 -0700

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