[Python-Dev] Proposed schedule for Python 3.4

[Paul Moore]

On 3 October 2012 17:34, R. David Murray <rdmurray at bitdance.com> wrote:
> There *were* bug reports during the alpha phase.  A number of regressions
> were caught.  Also, there were more alpha-phase bug reports than
> I remember getting for 3.2.  I remember thinking, "wow, cool, we're
> actually getting regression bug reports during the alpha phase, people
> must actually be testing this time".

One possibly-relevant point is that I caught some bugs in packaging
that could only be properly investigated from an installer-based
build. The source build layout on Windows is different, and it
mattered to packaging. (Arguably, that itself was a bug in packaging,
and it shouldn't have mattered, but nevertheless). As far as I can
tell, it is *not* possible (in any practical sense) to create a
production-layout install on Windows without building the MSIs (which
definitely takes installing extra tools and things to complete - more
than I ever managed to do successfully).

Paul.