[rfc] [patch] pycurl transport

Robert Collins robertc at robertcollins.net
Thu Jan 12 05:35:39 GMT 2006


On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 16:27 +1100, Martin Pool wrote:
> 
> This is, by the way, an interesting case for the API stability promise
> discussed a little while ago.  If we really strictly meant to keep
> external API stability, then we shouldn't remove this parameter even
> though it does nothing: it's just possible there's external code which
> does pass decode=False and will be broken.
> 
> So I'm not sure.  Maybe there is some room for discretion or maybe
> even small changes like this should go through a deprecation phase in
> the future. 

In general, yes they should. but: code that did this would have to be
very specific - specific enough I would not expect it to exist:
 * http only
 * using a parameter not present or accepted by other transports.

Rob
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