M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
... Seems that we're a bit too healthy (see MarkH's post) sometimes, i.e. there isn't all that much room for experiments. Just think of cool developments like Chris' stackless python. Experience shows that these kind of things will never make it into the distribution.
A portion of my threading patches went into 1.5. "Big" things can happen and they do... it's just a matter of passing muster with The Head Honcho. That, and the timing (e.g. the thread state changes wouldn't go into a 1.4.n release, but did go into 1.5).
Unfortunately, maintaing patches to the dist across releases a real pain and much work, so these ideas will just sit there unused and untested. Much the same happened to gcc ... in the end corporate strength made egcs possible. Perhaps we need such a branch too ?
NO -g -- Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/