[Testtools] ThirdPartyAllowed

Stefan Vigerske stefan at math.hu-berlin.de
Fri Jan 16 05:18:01 EST 2009


Hi,

> 	ThirdPartyAllowed is used as a global variable. The convention for 
> global variables seems to be all caps, so that this should be named something 
> like THIRD_PARTY_ALLOWED. If I make this change, everyone's local 
> NBuserParameters.py file will break, because it defines this variable.
> 	
> 	Do you guys have a mechanism for making a change like this? Is advance 
> warning sufficient? Or do we just live with it?

Since this is trunk, things like this are supposed to happen :-).
I think a message to the mailing list is sufficient.
And I doubt that anyone changed ThirdPartyAllowed in his personal
parameter file anyway.

Stefan

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Stefan Vigerske
Humboldt University Berlin, Numerical Mathematics
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