From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Felipe Contreras Subject: Re: Python extension commands in git - request for policy change Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2012 22:25:51 +0100 Message-ID: References: <20121125024451.1ADD14065F@snark.thyrsus.com> <50B1F684.5020805@alum.mit.edu> <20121125173607.GB32394@thyrsus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: Michael Haggerty , git@vger.kernel.org To: esr@thyrsus.com X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Nov 25 22:26:10 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 1TcjiI-0006kc-Uo for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Sun, 25 Nov 2012 22:26:07 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753437Ab2KYVZw (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Nov 2012 16:25:52 -0500 Received: from mail-oa0-f46.google.com ([209.85.219.46]:36749 "EHLO mail-oa0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753401Ab2KYVZv (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Nov 2012 16:25:51 -0500 Received: by mail-oa0-f46.google.com with SMTP id h16so10198086oag.19 for ; Sun, 25 Nov 2012 13:25:51 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=Bg9ddZhs7thm4RvAvcf9whxGP4BdLvSnI8bLPOwXJyk=; b=chbbJWLA0ghTvKotuI2Syoer26MXsqxZhB7LAOScrIOpDep+A4Db47LcLJFdGXVzyd Sr/FOUTAXsKW6fwCZRRAudoqU4H9Czj4iua+HUCmpMkRuLtziKe0TSQG90GgVdGZygok yfjOK/RMhjMVq10H1NXZfDULM3z+xXF9rrq9emnrnU4dZFOq2md+7uUGuNkJaiRXbEBk F6G6gUGZtm/msATa8b63RukvBn9KNUmzpnfNaf8Aqo6arC3xGJs6o3m5uer/0raC8Nom GTRSaI3jeFFafV47jOwNhBdQXNNRrMU3+WFX/1e03baCVgm6XxRzxlTpVU66OtequVRd zghw== Received: by 10.60.1.169 with SMTP id 9mr2286565oen.93.1353878751344; Sun, 25 Nov 2012 13:25:51 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.60.32.196 with HTTP; Sun, 25 Nov 2012 13:25:51 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20121125173607.GB32394@thyrsus.com> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 6:36 PM, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > 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 are you going to be around to spot them? It seems my patches for git-remote-hg slipped by your watch, because it seems they use stuff specific to python 2.7. >> 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. Exactly. Why would you reject something you can fix easily? -- Felipe Contreras