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Is there anything that would prevent this from being backported to 2.x.x ?
by circuiter 13y ago
Is there anything that would prevent this from being backported to 2.x.x ?
- yuvadam 13y agoYeah, 2.x versions are only updated with security-related patches.
- tshepang 13y agoNot exactly. 2.7 still gets bugfixes.
- mh- 13y agopolitics
- tshepang 13y agoNone of the releases deemed final accept any new features. It's general release policy for any FLOSS project, and only neglected on rare occasions.
- cben 13y agoThere is a recent PEP excluding IDLE from this policy, allowing it to get usability improvements on older pythons. One could think that enabling completions is a similar usability fix (though one change isn't worth the arguing to get exception) but in fact this change required a new var in `sys` and changed site.py, both unacceptable for a minor release. That's even for backport to 3.3. As for 2.7, even when when allowed, most changes aren't backported to it simply because the code has diverged a lot and core devs are tired of implementing changes twice.