On Mon, 2008-12-08 at 10:47 -0800, Jesse Keating wrote: > > On Mon, 2008-12-08 at 12:35 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > > > > I just don't get why any sane person, especially anyone familiar with > > computer languages, would ever want to give something that is not the > > same the same name. Does anyone know how the developer(s) manage this > > themselves? I have to think they are keeping multiple concurrent > > versions installed (and that that is the only reasonable approach). > > I'm pretty certain that if you look at any language, they've all faced > similar scenarios, major version upgrades that may in fact not be > forward no backward compatible. People have dealt with it and moved on. > No language is perfect. Never seen C/C++ break backward compatibility on a scale like Python 3.0 will. And they are compiled, where the impact is 100 fold less than for interpreted languages ... I would personally strongly consider having 2.x and 3.0 parallel installable ... Simo. -- Simo Sorce * Red Hat, Inc * New York -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
