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Author	pitrou
Recipients	belopolsky, georg.brandl, jcea, lemburg, mark.dickinson, ncoghlan, pitrou
Date	2011-02-23.12:39:25
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> > Nope. Your suggestion would be a new feature and those are not > > allowed in patch level releases. > > What new feature are you talking about? I think you misunderstood the > actual issue: NULL as an empty string worked in 3.1 And, with a very high likelihood, it also worked in 2.7, 2.6, etc. So, feel free to suggest a compatibility breakage in 3.3 if you think that's better (), but I don't think that's acceptable in 3.2.1, where the issue should be fixed anyway. () which really means "provide a patch" :)

> > Nope. Your suggestion would be a new feature and those are not
> > allowed in patch level releases.
> 
> What new feature are you talking about? I think you misunderstood the
> actual issue: NULL as an empty string *worked* in 3.1

And, with a very high likelihood, it also worked in 2.7, 2.6, etc.
So, feel free to suggest a compatibility breakage in 3.3 if you think
that's better (*), but I don't think that's acceptable in 3.2.1, where
the issue should be fixed anyway.

(*) which really means "provide a patch" :)

History
Date	User	Action	Args
2011-02-23 12:39:28	pitrou	set	recipients: + pitrou, lemburg, georg.brandl, jcea, mark.dickinson, ncoghlan, belopolsky
2011-02-23 12:39:26	pitrou	link	issue11286 messages
2011-02-23 12:39:25	pitrou	create