Adding Requests to the standard library [LWN.net]

Adding Requests to the standard library

Posted May 4, 2015 19:04 UTC (Mon) by paulj (subscriber, #341)
In reply to: Adding Requests to the standard library by mjg59
Parent article: Adding Requests to the standard library

So why don't Fedora ship them then, if it's so easy to ship old libraries?

The end-user experience is that a perfectly good application disappeared.

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Posted May 4, 2015 19:09 UTC (Mon) by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239) [Link] (1 responses)

It didn't build, and packages that don't build end up getting removed.

Posted May 4, 2015 19:36 UTC (Mon) by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239) [Link]

To be clear, I'm not arguing that this isn't a problem, just that the fault doesn't lie with the library authors.