[Python-Dev] 3.0.1 possibilities

[Steve Holden]

Brett Cannon wrote:
> 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:
>>>> 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.
>>
> 
> +1 just to get rid of cmp(). And if io speedups can happen, great, but
> they can also wait for 3.0.2.
> 
A point release just to remove a function whose withdrawal has been
advertised as a 3.0 change hardly seems worth the substantial effort of
cutting a release. If cmp() shouldn't have been in 3.0 and was then
there's surely no problem about removing it later as promised: anyone
who uses it in 3.0 code shouldn't be.

If it doesn't have to wait for a major release then is there any real
need to cut the minor release immediately?

regards
 Steve
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