[Bf-committers] Fwd: Patch [#18728] Particle (newtonian) physics API for Python

[Stephen Swaney]

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 01:39:01PM -0600, joe wrote:
> forwarded to list on theeth's request, he accidentally only sent it to me.
> 
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Martin Poirier <theeth at yahoo.com>
> Date: Tue, May 12, 2009 at 12:51 PM
> Subject: Re: [Bf-committers] Patch [#18728] Particle (newtonian)
> physics API  for Python
> 
> No.
> 
> The point of doing a 2.49 release is to have a last stable version of
> the 2.4x code line for the reasons you directly quote (people might
> not want to jump to 2.5 for certain reasons). To this end, adding all
> sorts of things at the last minute is a big no.
> 
> Moreover, adding all sorts of things to the Py api (not the GE api,
> mind you) is a deadend since not only there won't be any bug fixes for
> all new bugs that might crop up sooner or later but that code is not
> going to be reused for 2.5 at all.
> 
> Martin

Glad you forwarded that.  It saved me the trouble of making those points.

So yeah, what theeth said.  For just those reasons.

S.
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