[IPython-dev] Victims of our own success, change of strategy needed to get 0.12 released...

[MinRK]

On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 16:40, Thomas Kluyver <takowl at gmail.com> wrote:

> Commenting on a couple of my own PRs:
>
>
> On 11 December 2011 00:02, MinRK <benjaminrk at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 1073 (storemagic/default extensions):
>>     Proposes extra work to move extensions to Shell from App.  I suggest
>> letting the extra work wait until after release, and merge this one as-is.
>>
>
> That sounds fine to me. I'd like to add extensions to the shell so they
> can be used for more default functionality (anything in the app isn't used
> when IPython is embedded), but it's not a big deal at the moment.
>
>
>> 1129 (unified setup.py):
>>     Looks perfectly fine to me, but I am wary of a significant change to
>> setup.py immediately before release.  I would let this one slide, and merge
>> immediately after release.
>>
>
> Not a problem, but in that case I'd like to get a simpler fix for #1119
> (start menu shortcuts in Python 3) into 0.12. I'll try to do a PR soon.
>

Since the Start Menu shortcuts are for the Windows .exe installer only
(right?), I'm fine simply leaving them out of this release.  I don't think
they are particularly important to more advanced users, which I think is a
superset of those running Python 3.


>
> Thanks,
> Thomas
>
>
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