[Python-Dev] PEP 6: Patch and Bug Fix Releases

[Fredrik Lundh]

skip wrote:
> I suggest dumping the patch release concept and just going with bug fix
> releases.  The system will be complex enough without them.  If it proves
> desirable later, you can always add them.

agreed.

> Applying sre 2.1 to the 2.0 source would probably be reasonably easy.
> Adding it to 1.5.2 would be much more difficult (no Unicode), and so
> would quite possibly be accepted by the 2.0 RS and rejected by the
> 1.5.2 RS.

footnote: SRE builds and runs just fine under 1.5.2:

    http://www.pythonware.com/products/sre

Cheers /F