[Python-Dev] Upcoming 2.4.5 and 2.3.7 releases

[Barry Warsaw]

Martin v. Löwis wrote:
>> If the intent is really to do a source-only releases mostly for system
>> vendors, then I don't see the harm in leaving those changes in.  I mean,
>> a vendor is going to cherry pick the ones they want anyway, so let's
>> just make it easy for them to do this.  That might mean publishing the
>> svn logs a long with the source release, or publishing each diff and log
>> message separately.
> 
> It's not just vendors, also end-users who are concerned about the
> security of their installations.
> 
>> I would be bummed to rollback the email package changes.
> 
> You don't have to - I will do it for you (although I don't
> understand fully what "to be bummed" means).

It means I'd be sad. ;)

The problem is that I make separate releases of the standalone email
package from these branches, so that means that email 3.0.3 or 2.5.10
will have regressions.

Unless you're offering to also re-apply these changes after you make the
 Python releases <wink>.

-Barry