Breaking backwards compatiblity

[Nick Sabalausky]

"bearophile" <bearophileHUGS at lycos.com> wrote in message 
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> Walter:
>
>> I'm talking about the name change. It's far and away the most common 
>> thing I
>> have to edit when moving code from D1 <=> D2.
>
> We need good/better ways to manage Change and make it faster and less 
> painful, instead of refusing almost all change right now.
> Things like more fine-graded deprecation abilities, smarter error messages 
> in libraries that suggest how to fix the code, tools that update the code 
> (py2to3 or the Go language tool to update the programs), things like the 
> strange "future" built-in Python package, and so on.
>

+1