From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Eric S. Raymond" Subject: Re: Python extension commands in git - request for policy change Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2012 12:36:07 -0500 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs Message-ID: <20121125173607.GB32394@thyrsus.com> References: <20121125024451.1ADD14065F@snark.thyrsus.com> <50B1F684.5020805@alum.mit.edu> Reply-To: esr@thyrsus.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Michael Haggerty , git@vger.kernel.org To: Felipe Contreras X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Nov 25 18:37:20 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Tcg8s-00089Q-P3 for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Sun, 25 Nov 2012 18:37:19 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753246Ab2KYRhA (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Nov 2012 12:37:00 -0500 Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5]:43222 "EHLO snark.thyrsus.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753232Ab2KYRg7 (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Nov 2012 12:36:59 -0500 Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id CC1D24065F; Sun, 25 Nov 2012 12:36:07 -0500 (EST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Felipe Contreras : > Of course, but there are experts in C and shell around, not so many > python experts. So if somebody sneaks in a python program that makes > use of features specific to python 2.7, I doubt anybody would notice. I would. > And if they did, I doubt that would be reason enough for rejection, > supposing that porting to 2.6 would be difficult enough. In cases like that, backporting is usually pretty easy. Been there, done that. -- Eric S. Raymond