[Python-Dev] [Python-3000] Proposed revised schedule

[Guido van Rossum]

On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 7:07 PM, Raymond Hettinger <python at rcn.com> wrote:
> [Guido van Rossum]
>>
>> Well, from the number of release blockers it sounds like another 3.0
>> beta is the right thing. For 2.6 however I believe we're much closer
>> to the finish line -- there aren't all those bytes/str issues to clean
>> up, for example! And apparently the benefit of releasing on schedule
>> is that we will be included in OSX. That's a much bigger deal for 2.6
>> than for 3.0 (I doubt that Apple would add two versions anyway).
>
> With the extra time, it would be worthwhile to add dbm.sqlite to 3.0
> to compensate for the loss of bsddb so that shelves won't become
> useless on Windows builds.

So get started already! :-)

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