Would it make sense to issue an extra alpha next week?
When I was updating the NEWS file this morning, I realized that we've already added a truckload of nifty stuff in the 9 days since 2.2a2 was released: int overflows return longs, classic division warnings, subclassing builtins, super, getset, two fixes to float literals, the new GC API, and PyString_FromFormat[V]. I expect that I'll be concentrating on documentation for the type/class unification next. While writing the first piece of documentation, I realized that, sadly, several more advanced things aren't available in 2.2a2 yet. The next alpha is planned for Sept. 19, almost three weeks off still. Does anybody object against the release of an extra release, 2.2a3, around Sept. 5? We could do 2.2a4 on Sept. 19, or a week later if the schedule gets too crowded. --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
+1 On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 03:28:25PM -0400, Guido van Rossum wrote:
When I was updating the NEWS file this morning, I realized that we've already added a truckload of nifty stuff in the 9 days since 2.2a2 was released: int overflows return longs, classic division warnings, subclassing builtins, super, getset, two fixes to float literals, the new GC API, and PyString_FromFormat[V].
I expect that I'll be concentrating on documentation for the type/class unification next. While writing the first piece of documentation, I realized that, sadly, several more advanced things aren't available in 2.2a2 yet.
The next alpha is planned for Sept. 19, almost three weeks off still.
Does anybody object against the release of an extra release, 2.2a3, around Sept. 5? We could do 2.2a4 on Sept. 19, or a week later if the schedule gets too crowded.
--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
-- Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
On 31 August 2001, Guido van Rossum said:
Does anybody object against the release of an extra release, 2.2a3, around Sept. 5? We could do 2.2a4 on Sept. 19, or a week later if the schedule gets too crowded.
Makes sense to me -- "Release early, release often". Anyways, lots of big changes in 2.2 means lots of alpha releases are probably a good thing. Greg -- Greg Ward - Unix geek gward@python.net http://starship.python.net/~gward/ This quote intentionally left blank.
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