[Python-Dev] 3.0.1 possibilities

[Barry Warsaw]

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On Dec 6, 2008, at 6:25 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:

> On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 3:18 PM, Benjamin Peterson
> <musiccomposition at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Since the release of 3.0, several critical issues have come to our
>> attention. Namely, the builtin cmp function wasn't removed [1] and  
>> the
>> new IO library proved to be (as expected) abysmally slow [2][3][4].
>> Christian proposed that we release 3.0.1 within the next week to  
>> patch
>> up this critical issues. Thoughts?
>>
>>
>> [1] http://bugs.python.org/1717
>> [2] http://bugs.python.org/4533
>> [3] http://bugs.python.org/4561
>> [4] http://bugs.python.org/4565

I've set the priority on all these to release blockers, but I have my  
reservations about 4561 and 4565.  Resolution of those seem like more  
than a week or so away.

If we want to do a bug fix release for 3.0.1, I'd like to do it no  
later than the 19th.

- -Barry

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