[Python-Dev] 3.0.1 possibilities

[Brett Cannon]

On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 15:41, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:
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> On Dec 6, 2008, at 6:25 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
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>> On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 3:18 PM, Benjamin Peterson
>> <musiccomposition at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> 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?
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>>> [1] http://bugs.python.org/1717
>>> [2] http://bugs.python.org/4533
>>> [3] http://bugs.python.org/4561
>>> [4] http://bugs.python.org/4565
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> 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.
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> If we want to do a bug fix release for 3.0.1, I'd like to do it no later
> than the 19th.
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+1 just to get rid of cmp(). And if io speedups can happen, great, but
they can also wait for 3.0.2.

-Brett