[Python-checkins] r42109 - in python/branches/release24-maint: Lib/urlparse.py Misc/NEWS

[Guido van Rossum]

On 1/20/06, Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake at acm.org> wrote:
> On Friday 20 January 2006 13:27, Guido van Rossum wrote:
>  > This sounds awfully close to a feature. It's a slippery slope.
>
> Interesting.  I didn't hear any complaints when I added svn: and svn+ssh:
> support to the urlparse module; Python 2.4 was already in mainenance at the
> time.

I didn't happen upon the checkin perhaps.

I'm not sure georg's checkin is wrong, but I think we ought to have a
(brief) discussion about the definition of a feature vs. a bug. Most
bugs fixed in bugfix releases are much closer to being clear bugs.

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