[Python-Dev] Python 2.3.4 schedule

Gustavo Niemeyer niemeyer at conectiva.com
Wed May 5 12:54:09 EDT 2004


> Huh?  We're talking about a bugfix release for 2.3 here.  Not a good
> time for improvements, which sounds to me like a euphemism for new
> features, not for bug fixes.

Adding a gettext compatible lgettext() might be a good thing,
as well as bind_textdomain_codeset() (which pygtk users certainly
have missed already) but I have to admit this is not a bug fix
per se.

> Even if they are backwards compatible, I'm still -1 on adding new
> features to a bugfix release.

Acknowledged. Will prepare a patch for the next major asap.

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