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Subject: Re: Maintaining a backported module
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 09:37:22 +0100
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On 24/10/2013 07:30, Ethan Furman wrote:
> On 10/23/2013 09:54 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>>
>> 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~

Have you or could you publish anything regarding your experiences, I 
suspect it would be an enlightening read for a lot of us?

-- 
Python is the second best programming language in the world.
But the best has yet to be invented.  Christian Tismer

Mark Lawrence