[PEAK] Strange dispatch problem after cvs up

[Dave Peticolas]

On Sun, 2005-04-24 at 03:33 -0400, Phillip J. Eby wrote:
> At 09:02 AM 4/21/05 -0400, Jay Parlar wrote:
> >Fantastic, importing dispatch.strategy first worked for me. Not a good
> >long term solution, but at least I can get back to it.
> 
> Okay, I've checked in a fix.  It turns out it wasn't an import circularity, 
> but rather it's the fact that you can't nest "assignment advisors" -- my 
> evil trace-hook hack to simulate decorators in Python <2.4.  What was 
> happening is that if the first time dispatch.strategy was imported was from 
> a decorator (like 'someGF.when()'), then an important 'dispatch.as()' call 
> would silently fail, mucking up the "make_index" method's setup as a 
> classmethod.
> 
> Anyway, it's fixed now, but we should probably make a move to Python 2.4 in 
> the near future in order to get away from this problem.

Any chance that 2.3 compatibility could be retained to a 1.0 release?

thanks,
dave