[Python-Dev] Upcoming 2.5.2 release

[Christian Heimes]

Jesus Cea wrote:
> My guess is that 2.5 branch is still open to more patches than pure
> security/stability patches, so "backporting" BerkeleyDB 4.6 support
> seems reasonable (to me). If I'm wrong, please educate me :-).

I think you are wrong, sorry pal! DB 4.6 support is a new feature. New
features must land in the development version(s) of Python, that is
Python 2.6 and 3.0. You must change as less code as possible in Python
2.5 to fix a severe problem.

Christian