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Re: Python in package development?



Florent Rougon writes:
> Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis <luca@linuxasylum.net> wrote:
> 

> > I'm not sure of the usefulness of this approach.
> > Even if python is one of my favorite language, it's still too young compared
> > wit perl and it's staility. python is still evolving, and we have not, afaik,
> > sufficent warranties of what will change and what will not.
>
> I don't agree at all on this point. The backward-incompatible
> changes in Python are well handled, you have plenty of time to take
> them into account (thanks to the "from __future__ import whatever"
> statements).

huh? potato was released with 1.5.2, woody with 2.1 as default,
woody+1 probably with 2.4. So someone upgrading faces the features
deprecated in 2.0 and removed in 2.1... Ore freeze python at 1.5.2 as
other distributors do.



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