[Python-Dev] Re: 2.1.2 release -- do we need a beta?

[Thomas Heller]

> >>> Guido van Rossum wrote
> > Do we need a beta for the 2.1.2 release?  I think it might be prudent
> > -- Anthony's last-minute checking of a critical fix to a bug that
> > prevented compilation on one platform points this out again.
> 
> Maybe. But on the other hand, I've also done a bunch of different builds
> on as many platforms as I could find. 
> [The oopsie I found was actually probably the most complex merge of the
> lot, and that's not saying much. put it down to too many CVS checkouts 
> and not enough brain :)]
> 
> The ugliness potential is from either those platforms that are an offense
> against nature that no-one thinks to try, or from some sort of weird 
> compilation options. I don't think that there's many of the fixes in 
> the 2.1.2 code that are going to break something that worked before - 
> with the list of platforms I've hit tonight, I think I've got most of
> the new code exercised. (One of the minor-ish constraints I put on 
> candidate fixes was whether or not I could easily test it.) 
> 
> The other question I have to ask is whether people will actually download
> and test a beta/release candidate of a bugfix release. 

Given my current schedule I cannot offord to build 2.1.2 from CVS and test
it, but I would certainly try out a beta or rc on win2000. Been burned too
often by a buggy bdist_wininst ;-(

Thomas