On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, William Hooper wrote:
WipeOut said:
> I agree that this scenario is possible but (and I may be wrong) aren't
> most scripting languages usually backwards compatible in that a script
> created for an older version of the scripting language would usually
> still run on the newer vertsion..
As I said, an example. Looking at the Rawhide yum changelog:
- patch to work with python 2.3 from Seth
So maybe it was a yum issue, not a python issue. You still get the same
result: a broken yum.
Another example would be any incompatable change with glibc because that
would kill rpm.
I think that's a pretty weak argument given that other distros have had
no problem with similar things for quite some time. Given that fedora is
without-warranty anyway, you don't have to worry about it causing
complaints. Maybe don't make it the default, but I think for fedora to
be acceptable to many people it will have to be able to do rolling
upgrades sanely.
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Sam Barnett-Cormack
Software Developer | Student of Physics & Maths
UK Mirror Service (
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