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Re: Bug!

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Date 2015-08-23 11:35 +1000
Subject Re: Bug!
From Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Message-ID <mailman.24.1440293730.17298.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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On Sun, Aug 23, 2015 at 11:22 AM, Simon Ward <simon@bleah.co.uk> wrote:
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> On 23 August 2015 00:06:44 BST, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:
>>Precisely. Every time you support multiple versions of some
>>dependency, you have to test your code on all of them, and in the
>>common case (new features added in newer versions), you have to target
>>the oldest and weakest version.
>
> Just don't add features to older versions. They're in maintenance or bugfix mode.

That's not what I'm talking about... I'm talking about multiple
versions of a dependency. If I write a Python script, and tell people
"this requires CPython 3.6 running on Linux" because that's what I
run... it's not going to be easy to use. Telling people that it
requires Python 3.4 or newer cuts out a lot of people, requiring 3.3
or better is going to include a lot more. It's a tradeoff between
usability and cleanliness of code.

ChrisA

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Re: Bug! Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-08-22 05:41 +1000
  Re: Bug! hamilton <hamilton@nothere.com> - 2015-08-21 16:42 -0600
    Re: Bug! Zachary Ware <zachary.ware+pylist@gmail.com> - 2015-08-21 18:07 -0500
    Re: Bug! sohcahtoa82@gmail.com - 2015-08-21 16:53 -0700
      Re: Bug! Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-08-22 11:02 +1000
        Re: Bug! Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2015-08-21 21:37 -0700
          Re: Bug! Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-08-22 15:16 +1000
        Re: Bug! hamilton <hamilton@nothere.com> - 2015-08-21 23:26 -0600
      Re: Bug! Tim Golden <mail@timgolden.me.uk> - 2015-08-22 18:08 +0100
      Re: Bug! Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-08-23 09:06 +1000
      Re: Bug! Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-08-23 11:35 +1000
      Re: Bug! Simon Ward <simon@bleah.co.uk> - 2015-08-23 02:22 +0100

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