[Python-Dev] RELEASED Python 2.2.3c1

[Gustavo Niemeyer]

Hi Barry!

> >Oops, that suddenly went *very* fast, I though I had until the weekend...
> 
> But probably not as fast as it should have.  I had fun reading checkin 
> comments like (paraphrasing), "this change is probably important enough 
> for a 2.2.3 release" dated from December of last year. :)

Indeed. I'd like to have worked more on Python 2.2.3. Unfortunately,
Conectiva Linux has been released just a few weeks ago, and my free time
suddenly vanished in that period.

> >Is there a chance I could get #723495 still in before 2.2.3 final? I was 
> >also hoping to find a fix for #571343, but I don't have a patch yet 
> >(although I'll try to get one up in the next few hours).
> 
> I think it would be fine to get these into 2.2.3 final.

I have some time this weekend to work on Python. Do you think it'd be ok
to backport some of the fixes we have introduced in the regular
expression engine in 2.3 to 2.2.3, or is it too late? We have a sf patch
open about that, but I'd like to port only the changes that don't
require major changes in the engine.

Also, have you seen the message about urllib2 I sent a few days ago?
Would that be something important to have in 2.2.3 (or even in 2.3)?

Do you plan to produce another release candidate?

Thanks!

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Gustavo Niemeyer

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