Has Red Hat helped or hurt?

[Erik Max Francis]

Christian Tanzer wrote:

> But you continue to rant about breakages without supplying any
> evidence of where it really mattered to you. In particular, IIRC you
> always talk about breaks where the code was made consistent with the
> documentation (e.g., list.append) or an obsolete module was removed
> (e.g., rand).

Another example of the former -- and the only "breakage" that affected
me in any way -- was that arguments which took socket addresses as
arguments allowed two arguments instead of a 2-tuple.  And I knew about
that when I upgraded, so fixed it within moments.

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