<br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/21/06, <b class="gmail_sendername"><a href="mailto:skip@pobox.com">skip@pobox.com</a></b> <<a href="mailto:skip@pobox.com">skip@pobox.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br> Thomas> Allow me to pitch in my support for speeding up the releases,<br> Thomas> then. I don't believe alpha releases (of Python) get serious<br> Thomas> testing.<br><br>Is there nobody else out there that uses Python built from the current svn
<br>repository as the main Python interpreter on a day-to-day basis? Maybe that<br>doesn't qualify as rigorous testing. I've been doing that for several<br>years. I can only remember once or twice needing to fall back to something
<br>less bleeding edge for a short while.</blockquote><div><br>Sure, that counts. You only count as one, though (and so do I) -- and neither of us is actually using an alpha release :-) I was talking about the testing an alpha release attracts, in the wider population than just python-dev subscribers. The fact that much testing goes on between releases as well makes the alphas even less important. Wetting the appetites and soliciting feedback on the major features is what they're for, in my eyes.
<br></div></div><br>-- <br>Thomas Wouters <<a href="mailto:thomas@python.org">thomas@python.org</a>><br><br>Hi! I'm a .signature virus! copy me into your .signature file to help me spread!