On 26/04/2013 20:37, Ondrej Ján wrote:
If users have python-xlrd installed, package maintainer should release
only updates, which are API compatible with older versions.
Right, the only API change between 0.6 and 0.9 is the removal of the
'pickleable' parameter to open_workbook. However, this was removed
because it hadn't worked in a long long time.
Both Fedora and CentOS has python>=2.6, python3 is available for Fedora
too (no plans to release python3-xlrd now).
xlrd 0.9 and above works with both python2 and python3 as-is.
So can I release an update for all my Linux distributions with backward
compatibility of this package? xlrd-0.8 was requested for xlsx support.
I would suggest just going for 0.9.2.
Are there some howtos describing upgrading applications using xlrd
to newer versions? These documents can help me to choose, if I can release
an update.
There aren't any, because there are no changes. Applications written for
0.6.x will still work without change when using 0.9.2.
cheers,
Chris
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