Re: [Python-ideas] stdlib with its own release cycle ?

On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 4:56 AM, Georg Brandl <g.brandl@gmx.net> wrote:

Exactly. Since with the moratorium in effect, we are basically changing *nothing but* the stdlib, it has its own release cycle already :)

Not true. There is much core work that can be done without changing the language definition (e.g. removing the GIL, speedups). Also, extension modules written in C presumably don't fall under the separate stdlib release but are excluded from the moratorium. That said a separate stdlib release has been asked for at the language summit and I am supportive. But it's link with the moratorium is minimal. -- --Guido van Rossum PS. My elbow needs a couple more weeks of rest. Limiting myself to ultra-short emails.