[Python-Dev] release plan for 2.5 ?
Brett Cannon
brett at python.org
Wed Feb 8 06:39:19 CET 2006
On 2/7/06, Neal Norwitz <nnorwitz at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2/7/06, Fredrik Lundh <fredrik at pythonware.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > what's the current release plan for Python 2.5, btw? I cannot find a
> > > relevant PEP, and the "what's new" says "late 2005":
> > >
> > but I don't think that anyone followed up on this. what's the current
> > status ?
>
> Guido and I had a brief discussion about this. IIRC, he was thinking
> alpha around March and release around summer. I think this is
> aggressive with all the things still to do. We really need to get the
> ssize_t branch integrated.
>
> There are a bunch of PEPs that have been accepted (or close), but not
> implemented. I think these include (please correct me, so we can get
> a good list):
>
> http://www.python.org/peps/
>
> SA 308 Conditional Expressions
> SA 328 Imports: Multi-Line and Absolute/Relative
> SA 342 Coroutines via Enhanced Generators
> S 343 The "with" Statement
> S 353 Using ssize_t as the index type
>
> This one should be marked as final I believe:
>
> SA 341 Unifying try-except and try-finally
>
Supposedly Guido is close on pronouncing on PEP 352 (Required
Superclass for Exceptions), or so he said last time that thread came
about.
-Brett
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