making python scripts backwards compatible

[Steve Holden]

"J.Jacob" <joost_jacob at hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:13285ea2.0205061603.46d4cce at posting.google.com...
> > [Steve Holden]
> > ...and of course you *did* make sure your patches are available so
others
> > needing the same feature can easily get hold of them, right?
>
> It was just a quick hack to see if it would work with python 1.5.2,
> but anyway here it is:
> http://www.liacs.nl/~jjacob/xmlrpc152.zip
>
>     To start a server:
> python SimpleXMLRPCServer.py
>     To start a client on the same computer using that server:
> python clocal.py
>
> Replace 'localhost' in the clocal.py script with the server IP number
> if the server is on another computer.
>
> NOTE that the xmlrpclib.py and SimpleXMLRPCServer.py scripts are NOT
> the original anymore !
>
> > [Steve Holden]
> > ...and, if so, you *are* going to track future changes to the module so
your
> > backward-s compatible version remains forward-compatible to later
Pythons,
> > right?
>
> I got your point :)  It was just for demonstration purposes.
>
> later:
> Tried to put something on sourceforge but could not get cvs to work
> from Windows, gave up after about 1 hour.  Anybody knows a good cvs
> program for windows that is compatible with sourceforge !?!?  (so you
> can do just what they say on the 'cvs-help' page)

I've simply used the cygwin cvs with very few problems (in fatc none I can
remember that weren't simply due to my misunderstanding of CVS).

regards
 Steve
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