Costs vs Benefits
Costs vs Benefits
Posted Jun 27, 2024 16:35 UTC (Thu) by nickodell (subscriber, #125165)In reply to: Strip the functionality altogether. by pavon
Parent article: Python grapples with Apple App Store rejections
I think that when asking whether to remove it, we should ask what the cost of the feature is. If you look at the PR which adds this support, excluding tests, it is added in one line of code. (https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/104312) This seems like pretty minimal maintenance burden.
Posted Jun 27, 2024 20:26 UTC (Thu)
by pavon (guest, #142617)
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Costs vs Benefits
The cost was negligible, until Apple decided to make it more expensive by requiring different behavior and thus different builds depending on how the user installed the app.