[Python-bugs-list] Fatal Python error: PyThreadState_Delete: invalid tstate (PR#299)

[Barry A. Warsaw]

>>>>> "GK" == Greg Klanderman <greg@itasoftware.com> writes:

    GK> You should create a branch in your CVS repository at 1.5.2,
    GK> fix the bug in that branch (and any others that are found in
    GK> the 1.5.x lineage, at least until the next stable release),
    GK> and continue developing
    GK> 1.6 as normal.  The only downside is that you have to check
    GK> bugfixes to 1.5.x series into both that branch and the main
    GK> development branch (1.6) - which is really not that bad at
    GK> all.

The other downside is that CVS branches really don't work.  We tried
it with the string-methods stuff and it was a fiasco.  We're trying to
avoid branches if at all possible.

-Barry