By making debugging a separate extension we can do an initial release using debugpy 1.5 which will work all the way back to Python 2.7, and then immediately do another release using debugpy 1.6. That way people who need debugging support for older Python versions can pin the debugging extension version but leave the Python extension alone to get newer feature support (if it works with the old version of Python that they are running).
By making debugging a separate extension we can do an initial release using debugpy 1.5 which will work all the way back to Python 2.7, and then immediately do another release using debugpy 1.6. That way people who need debugging support for older Python versions can pin the debugging extension version but leave the Python extension alone to get newer feature support (if it works with the old version of Python that they are running).