[snake-farm] Re: 2.2.x backports of 2.3.x new features?

[Laura Creighton]

Thank you for the input, Peter:

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Laura

> Laura Creighton wrote:
> > 
> > > What would the difference, then, be between PIAT and Python 2.3?
> > 
> > Right now the shortage is in finding people who want anything enough
> > to want to do some work.  (There is no shortage of people who think that
> > thing X would be great as long as somebody else does the work.)  I
> > never envisioned backporting so many things, but if somebody wants to
> > work that hard, I won't tell them they cannot.
> > 
> > I think there is a compelling business case to put fixedpoint in the PIT,
> > but so far I don't think there is a compelling reason for the rest.  This
> > is because I am completely ignorant and haven't heard any reasons at all,
> > not because I am completely knowledgeable and have my mind made up.  So,
> > listening to people who want things, even if they don't want them enough
> > to work at making them happen is still very interesting to me.
> 
> Logging would be nice, but I see no reason we couldn't (when *we*
> get the time to put that in our stuff at all) just download it
> and put it on top of our own Python installation.
> 
> Bool is another YES, although we're getting along fine just redefining
> our standard (true,false) = (1,0) to be (True, False) = (1,0)
> everywhere...
> 
> I agree with the fixedpoint comment in general, and we would in fact
> probably use it within the next year.
> 
> And no, we definitely don't have time to do the work related to these
> ourselves, yet... as I hinted, we don't even have time to *use* this
> stuff even if it were available already...  sigh.  (I do seriously
> hope to contribute back some of our advances related to the testing 
> framework though.)
> 
> -Peter
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