Message142379
> The point is precisely that we don't change anything: applications
> checking against sys.platform are already broken, there's no reason to
> comfort them into using this defective check.
You grossly misunderstand the concept of "backwards compatibility".
At times, features get added to allow even buggy (or perceived-buggy)
applications to continue to work under a change.
> The applications that encountered the problem (chromium, matplotlib
> and probably others) already performed the change to
> sys.platform.startswith(), so it's really the only way to go.
I'm very certain that not all applications have been changed yet. |
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2011-08-18 17:43:34 | loewis | set | recipients:
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2011-08-18 17:43:33 | loewis | link | issue12326 messages |
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