[Python-Dev] To 3.0.2 or not to 3.0.2?

[Georg Brandl]

Benjamin Peterson schrieb:
> On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 3:02 PM, Georg Brandl <g.brandl at gmx.net> wrote:
>> Benjamin Peterson schrieb:
>>> On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 5:25 AM, Samuele Pedroni <pedronis at openend.se> wrote:
>>>> Didn't a test fail because of this? seems the underlying issue is that this
>>>> part of the stdlib didn't have enough test coverage. It seems that having
>>>> very good/improving test coverage like is recommended  for 3rd-party project
>>>> wanting to switch would be a good goal for 3.0 evolution too. We know from
>>>> PyPy experience that while always improving the test suite coverage is quite
>>>> spotty at times.
>>>
>>> No, a test didn't fail. Our new distutils maintainer, Tarek Ziade,
>>> though, has been increasing the distutils test coverage greatly.
>>
>> In addition to testing, this specific issue could have been found easily by
>> running something like pylint over the stdlib, because undefined globals
>> are one of the things they can detect with 100% accuracy...
> 
> Oh, does pylint support py3k now?

I think you may have a point there, though I honestly don't know.

Georg

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