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On Sun, 9 Apr 2017 12:15:56 -0400 |
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"William L. Thomson Jr." <wlt-ml@××××××.com> wrote: |
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> Python 2.7 stuff aside. I am not sure how many Python and Ruby packages |
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> break with a newer release. In pythons case I think once they support |
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> Python 3.x, there is little chance if it breaking with further 3.x |
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> releases. Not sure about Ruby. |
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I'm not going to weigh heavily into this as I don't mind the current |
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setup but as a professional Ruby developer, I can say that breakages |
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between versions are usually overblown by those outside the community. |
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Yeah, there usually are some but they tend to only affect the bigger |
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libraries and frameworks that do some more exotic things. Even then, |
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the changes required are generally very small, sometimes even just one |
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line. People thought the sky would fall when 2.4 deprecated Fixnum and |
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Bignum. It really didn't. It's still just a warning right now but I |
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haven't seen that warning since it was dealt with in Rails. |
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James Le Cuirot (chewi) |
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Gentoo Linux Developer |
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