[Python-ideas] os.architecture

[Amber Yust]

On Sun Dec 29 2013 at 2:35:07 PM, Andrew Barnert <abarnert at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I also love hard coding SDL 2.0.1 into your portable application, because
> there's no way they'll ever release a newer version without telling you in
> advance so you can forcibly update all your users, which makes their
> "latest" links useless.
>

Using a fixed version isn't necessarily a terrible idea. While lots of
libraries strive for backwards compatibility, that doesn't mean they don't
sometimes break it (intentionally or accidentally). Always pulling down the
latest version of a library can lead to trickier debugging.
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