[Python-checkins] r42109 - in python/branches/release24-maint: Lib/urlparse.py Misc/NEWS

[Georg Brandl]

Guido van Rossum wrote:
> On 1/20/06, Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake at acm.org> wrote:
>> On Friday 20 January 2006 13:27, Guido van Rossum wrote:
>>  > This sounds awfully close to a feature. It's a slippery slope.
>>
>> Interesting.  I didn't hear any complaints when I added svn: and svn+ssh:
>> support to the urlparse module; Python 2.4 was already in mainenance at the
>> time.
> 
> I didn't happen upon the checkin perhaps.
> 
> I'm not sure georg's checkin is wrong, but I think we ought to have a
> (brief) discussion about the definition of a feature vs. a bug. Most
> bugs fixed in bugfix releases are much closer to being clear bugs.

One thing is, the urlparse documentation doesn't explicitly mention supported 
protocols.

Georg