[Python-Dev] Towards 1.6 Final
M.-A. Lemburg
mal@lemburg.com
Tue, 13 Jun 2000 21:25:04 +0200
"Barry A. Warsaw" wrote:
>
> The O'Reilly Open Source conference[1] starts July 17th and it would
> be a nice target to release 1.6 final on the 14th, the Friday before
> the conference. We all plan on being there.n
>
> What do we need to do to hit this target? If we figure a 2 week beta
> cycle, 1.6beta1 would have to be released June 30, with probably the
> last alpha on June 23. This is a tight schedule; is it even
> feasible?. Looking at Andrew's TODO list[2], here's what we came up
> with:
>
> [...]
> - document more undocumented modules (codes - done; unicodedata -
> needs work; mmap & pyexpat - Fred to integrate; curses - needs
> updates; regrtest - push to 1.7, see below)
I'll take care of unicodedata. What's "codes" -- or did you mean
codecs ?
> - Unicode: Compress the size of unicodedatabase (waiting for Chris
> Tismer patches?)
Right...
> - Unicode: Write \N{SMILEY} codec for Unicode (Bill Tutt has a patch,
> but none of us know what the state of this is -- is it crucial
> anyway?).
Not crucial, but would be nice to have.
> - Unicode: the various XXX items in Misc/unicode.txt (we didn't
> actually find such outstanding issues in this file).
There are no more discussion points... at least not in that
file ;-)
--
Marc-Andre Lemburg
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