[Python-ideas] stdlib with its own release cycle ?

[Georg Brandl]

Mathias Panzenböck schrieb:
> On 10/25/2009 12:56 PM, Georg Brandl wrote:
>> Antoine Pitrou schrieb:
>>> Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek at ...> writes:
>>>>
>>>> What about having a different release cycle for the stdlib, and
>>>> shipping Python in two distinct releases:
>>>>
>>>> - Python : core + stdlib
>>>> - Python-Stdlib : stdlib
>>>>
>>>> The Python release would remain unchanged, but its cycle would be
>>>> longer (as the moratorium seems to imply).
>>>
>>> I don't think the moratorium should imply any longer release cycle. Many
>>> improvements aren't of the kind that the moratorium aims at freezing. We could
>>> actually make the whole release cycle shorter, knowing that releases will be
>>> less disruptive.
>> 
>> Exactly. Since with the moratorium in effect, we are basically changing
>> *nothing but* the stdlib, it has its own release cycle already :)
> 
> As I had understood it thats not what the moratorium is about. The *language*
> (grammar, syntax) will not be changed. That doesn't freeze the interpreter at
> all. Even removing the GIL would not change the syntax (or semantics!) of the
> language, but it's definitely not just a stdlib change.

So, how many of those changes do you think will be done?  As you say, they don't
change any semantics, just maybe (hopefully) performance.  Stdlib changes
will therefore be most visible.

Georg

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