[Python-Dev] Python 3.0.1

[Barry Warsaw]

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On Jan 29, 2009, at 7:43 PM, Raymond Hettinger wrote:

> We should have insisted that bsddb not be taken out until a  
> replacement
> was put in.  The process was broken with the RM insisting on feature  
> freeze early in the game but letting tools like bsddb get ripped-out  
> near the end.  IMO, it was foolish to do one without the other.

Very good arguments were made for ripping bsddb out.  Guido agreed.  A  
replacement would have delayed 3.0 even more than it originally was,  
and the replacement would not have been battle tested.  It's possible,  
maybe even likely, that the replacement would have been found  
inadequate later on and then we'd be saddled with a different mistake.

Given that it's easy to make 3rd party packages work, I firmly believe  
this was the right decision.  With a proven, solid, popular  
replacement available for several months, it will be easy to pull that  
into the 3.1 release.

Barry

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