[Python-Dev] Re: Patch level versions and new features (Was: Some dull gc stats)

[Martin v. Loewis]

"Gordon McMillan" <gmcm@hypernet.com> writes:

> > Of couse, taking the _xmlplus hack out of PyXML
> > will cause backwards compatibility problems
> > (regardless what the alternative hook is). 
> 
> How? As long as "import xml" gets them _xmlplus, I
> can't see how it would break anything.

Of course, once the hack that is taken out of PyXML, there won't be
any _xmlplus anymore.

I was thinking about applications that package Python applications,
like freeze or Installer. People might have taken into account that
they have to look inside _xmlplus as well. If the hack changes, they
have to take into account that they need to look somewhere else,
instead.

Regards,
Martin