[Python-Dev] Open issues for 2.4.1
Anthony Baxter
anthony at interlink.com.au
Sat Mar 12 17:14:37 CET 2005
So here's a list of open items I'm thinking about for the 2.4.1
release.
- os.access handling unicode filenames
I'm still thinking over whether this is going to cause more problems
for people who find it works for some Python 2.4 and not others. I'm
leaning towards saying that this is a bug fix, but I'd appreciate any
comments (pro or con). If no-one comments, I'll go with whatever my
gut feeling says is the right answer.
- The unitest changes
Changes to unitest to fix subclassing broke Zope's unittests. Should
this change be reverted before 2.4.1, or was the Zope test suite doing
something particularly dodgy? I'm talking about
- unittest.TestCase.run() and unittest.TestSuite.run() can now be
successfully extended or overridden by subclasses. Formerly,
the subclassed method would be ignored by the rest of the module.
(Bug #1078905).
I've not looked too closely at the broken Zope code - can someone from
ZC comment? How likely is it that other programs will also have been
broken by this? At this point, I'm leaning (very slightly) towards the
feeling that this should probably be backed out before 2.4.1, mostly
because it seems to me that this is an incompatibility, rather than a
pure bug fix.
I'm now pretty sure we need a 2.4.1rc2 for this week, and a 2.4.1 final the
week after. There's been a few too many changes for my tastes to say that
going straight to a 2.4.1 final is a prudent course of action.
--
Anthony Baxter <anthony at interlink.com.au>
It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
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