I'll be happy to test IRIX again when the time comes... Skip Montanaro writes: | | Jeremy> We'll have to be a lot more careful about the 2.0 final release. | Jeremy> PEP 200 has a tenative ship date of Oct. 10. We should probably | Jeremy> have a code freeze on Oct. 6 and leave the weekend and Monday | Jeremy> for verifying that there are no build problems on little- and | Jeremy> big-endian platforms. | | Since you can't test on all platforms, if you fix platform-specific bugs | bettween now and final release, I suggest you make bundles (tar, Windows | installer, whatever) available (without need for CVS) and specifically ask | the people who reported those bugs to check things out using the appropriate | bundle(s). This is as opposed to making such stuff available and then | posting a general note to the various mailing lists asking people to try | things out. I think if you're more direct with people who have | "interesting" platforms, you will improve the chances of wringing out a few | more bugs before the actual release. | | Skip | | | _______________________________________________ | Python-Dev mailing list | Python-Dev@python.org | http://www.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev