[Python-Dev] Upcoming 2.4.5 and 2.3.7 releases

[Barry Warsaw]

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On Jan 28, 2008, at 4:56 PM, Fred Drake wrote:

> On Jan 28, 2008, at 4:47 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Releasing the email package from the Python maintenance branches is  
> probably insane.
>
> This kind of thing would be less of a problem if the standard  
> library were smaller, and the email package only available  
> separately.  It's also why some of us want a smaller standard library.

Yep.  We've solved this problem for the old releases.  I still think  
it makes sense to use the maintenance branch for the current stable  
release, but as soon as 2.6 is released, I'll fiddle the sandbox to  
contain a separate copy, since 2.5 will be in security-only mode.

- -Barry

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