On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, William Hooper wrote: > > WipeOut said: > > I agree that this scenario is possible but (and I may be wrong) aren't > > most scripting languages usually backwards compatible in that a script > > created for an older version of the scripting language would usually > > still run on the newer vertsion.. > > As I said, an example. Looking at the Rawhide yum changelog: > > - patch to work with python 2.3 from Seth > > So maybe it was a yum issue, not a python issue. You still get the same > result: a broken yum. > > Another example would be any incompatable change with glibc because that > would kill rpm. I think that's a pretty weak argument given that other distros have had no problem with similar things for quite some time. Given that fedora is without-warranty anyway, you don't have to worry about it causing complaints. Maybe don't make it the default, but I think for fedora to be acceptable to many people it will have to be able to do rolling upgrades sanely. -- Sam Barnett-Cormack Software Developer | Student of Physics & Maths UK Mirror Service (http://www.mirror.ac.uk) | Lancaster University
