Re: The looming Python 3(000) monster

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James Antill wrote:
On Sat, 2008-12-06 at 18:30 -0500, Michael DeHaan wrote:

Not defined in older versions of python however, hence the need to branch code, hence a problem with EPEL supporting code.

 True, 2.5.x and earlier won't be compatible. Which means that
RHEL-5/CentOS-5 python won't be compatible with any code that uses this
feature of py3k and/or 2.6.x (via. the from future import).

 This is _far_ from unprecedented though, lack of decorators and/or
yield alone makes the python in RHEL-4/CentOS-4 incompatible for any
modern development. And I've had to upgrade boxes because of this, and
told a lot of people "Yeh, any recent yum just isn't going to work
there ... sucks".

That's a backwards compatibility example.

I'm talking about a break in forwards compatibility.
 This wasn't the end of the world then, and didn't mean we wanted/needed
to hold python back in Fedora. I don't see anything materially different
now.


(A) This is a different issue than the above. This is equivalent to older Python targetting code not being run on the /new/, not newer code running on the old.
Completely different problem.

(B) Nobody said the world was ending :)

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