Re: Freeze exception request for twyt
Andrew Price wrote:
> On 27/01/09 01:37, Mauro Lizaur wrote:
> <snip>
>> Well, as of today, i believe python-twitter works fine with Twitter API,
>> but as Andrew said "...it being closed and unversioned means that I have
>> no way of knowing the chances of it changing significantly in the future...",
>> so today both (twyt and python-twitter) may work like a charm, but i have no
>> idea if these modules would be useful one year from now, so probably the
>> best thing to do is to leave them on 'testing' (or volatile).
>> But at the same time i'd like to know if would be possible to allow these
>> packages on Lenny (having in mind that both are working with *most* of the
>> Twitter API features, and trying to be up-to-date as possible), so this way
>> we have a chance to upload them on the future to "lenny-backports" when the
>> upstream changes are substantial.
>
> Thanks for your input Mauro. I agree with what you said above.
Ok, unblocked.
I guess we should discuss these external API/website dependencies in
general and for twitter in particular with volatile and backports teams
so we don't have to improvise when the API changes again ...
Cheers
Luk
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