[Python-Dev] Backported faster RLock to Python 2.6.

[Johan Gill]

On 01/07/2010 01:23 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> As Simon pointed out, while some organisations do work that way, the PSF
> isn't one of them.
>
> The PSF only requires that the code be contributed under a license that
> then allows us to turn around and redistribute it under a different open
> source license without requesting additional permission from the
> copyright holder. For corporate contributions, I believe the contributor
> agreement needs to be signed by an authorised agent of the company - the
> place to check that would probably be psf at python.org (that's the email
> address for the PSF board).
>
> Assuming the subject line relates to the code that you would like to
> contribute though, that particular change is unlikely to happen - 2.6 is
> in maintenance mode and changing RLock from a Python implementation to
> the faster C one is solidly in new feature territory. Although a
> backport of the 3.2 C RLock implementation to 2.7 could be useful, I
> doubt that backporting code provided by an existing committer would be
> the subject of this query :)
>
> Regards,
> Nick.
>
>    
Yes, it is the new RLock implementation.
If I understood this correctly, we should make a patch against trunk if 
anything should be contributed.
Do you mean that we wouldn't need the paperwork for backporting the 
original patch committed to py3k?

Regards
Johan Gill
Agama Technologies