[Python-Dev] 3.0.1 possibilities

[Aahz]

On Sat, Dec 06, 2008, Benjamin Peterson 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?

Seems overly aggressive to me.  These prohibit use of 3.0 in production
environments; they do not prohibit development in 3.0.  I think we should
target early January and make it public that we are doing so.  That will
give more time for any additional similar bugs to get fixed at once.
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