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

[Guido van Rossum]

> 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.

+1

> > 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

In the specific case of SRE, I'm +1 on keeping the code base in 2.0.1
completely synchronized with 2.1.

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