Bug fix releases

[Erno Kuusela]

In article <mailman.983646726.27322.python-list at python.org>, Guido van
Rossum <guido at digicool.com> writes:

| But I understand that you're saying that the community has grown so
| conservative that it can't stand new features even if they *are* fully
| backwards compatible.

| I wonder, does that extend to new library modules?  Is there also
| resistance against the growth there?  I don't think so -- if anything,
| people are clamoring for more stuff to become standard (while at the
| same time I feel some pressure to cut dead wood, like the old SGI
| multimedia modules).

it is good if the library is big and plentiful and i don't even
mind if it's bloated. the core language on the other hand
should be simple, and it should not have spurious features.

  -- erno