[Python-3000-checkins] [Python-3000] r64217 - in python/branches/py3k/Lib: bsddb/test/test_associate.py bsddb/test/test_join.py bsddb/test/test_lock.py bsddb/test/test_thread.py idlelib/rpc.py idlelib/run.py socketserver.py test/test_threadedtemp

[Guido van Rossum]

On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 6:07 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Steve Holden wrote:
>>
>> Guido van Rossum wrote:
>>>
>>> It's water under the bridge now, but IMO it was too rash to *remove*
>>> the old threading API from Py3k, and doubly rash to do so one day
>>> before the beta release. Running up to a release (whether alpha, beta
>>> or final) we should practice extra restraint, not rush to get things
>>> in right before the deadline. Let's all be more careful the rest of
>>> this release cycle! (I think it wasn't just Benjamin who raced to get
>>> things in...)
>>
>> Well, it wouldn't be "adding a new feature" to reinstate the old API for
>> beta two, would it, as long as we retain the new one too? It does seem that
>> change was a little precipitate.
>
> Although if we weren't actually planning on removing the old API in 3.0, I'm
> a little confused as to why we were adding Py3k warnings to it in 2.6...

It all went way too fast for anyone to think about the decision, so I
suspect these two issues are directly related.

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--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)