[Distutils] [Distribute] Python 3 porting effort - plans proposal for 0.7/0.8

Tarek Ziadé ziade.tarek at gmail.com
Fri Jul 24 15:43:43 CEST 2009


On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Lennart Regebro<regebro at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/7/24 Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek at gmail.com>:
>> I can postpone the 0.6 release for a week or so, until this is ready, so we can
>> have 0.6 for Python 3.
>
> I think we should make a 2.x only release first. The changes to
> support Python 3 are small but numerous and since the test-coverage
> isn't that great I'm worried it will insert subtle bugs. I would be
> less worried if we can have a longer test-period after these changes.
>
> On the other hand, if we do merge these changes before the 0.6 release
> they will quickly get tested. ;)

Right, I am +1 for adding it in 0.6, and having a 0.6.1 for thoses fixes,


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