[Python-3000] [Python-Dev] Proposed revised schedule

Raymond Hettinger python at rcn.com
Tue Sep 9 04:07:48 CEST 2008


[Guido van Rossum]
> Well, from the number of release blockers it sounds like another 3.0
> beta is the right thing. For 2.6 however I believe we're much closer
> to the finish line -- there aren't all those bytes/str issues to clean
> up, for example! And apparently the benefit of releasing on schedule
> is that we will be included in OSX. That's a much bigger deal for 2.6
> than for 3.0 (I doubt that Apple would add two versions anyway).

With the extra time, it would be worthwhile to add dbm.sqlite to 3.0
to compensate for the loss of bsddb so that shelves won't become
useless on Windows builds.


Raymond





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