[Python-Dev] Goals for patch selection for 2.1.2

[Guido van Rossum]

>   AB>   In general, I'd like the starting point for any patch to be
>   AB>   considered as "guilty until proven necessary".
> 
> Do you have an opinion on the recent change to traceback.c (make it
> collectable)?  I think it's a good candidate for 2.1.2 even though it
> doesn't meet the criteria above :-).

Hm.  In 2.2, the C API for the garbage collector is different from
2.1, so backporting this would require extra work.  Also, you'd
probably have to add GC to frames as well to reap the benefits.

To me this particular problem feels like a bug that's almost a feature
(everybody knows about it, it's documented, etc.), and I think we'd be
better off not fixing this in 2.1.2.

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