On Jan 8, 2008, at 7:54 AM, J. Clifford Dyer wrote: > Aside from the concerns of a few developers wanting simpler release > cycles, this is definitely not the way to go.
I don't mean that "political" (in this case, "business") reasons are unimportant, but they can be addressed in other ways. The advantage of decoupled release cycles isn't simplicity (though that's welcome as well, if attainable), but the ability to update library packages independently should bug fixes be needed. I don't think this is a huge deal for the pickle module, but is more of an issue for some of the wrappers for external libraries. The database packages (bsddb, sqlite) come to mind here, but aren't the only cases where independent releases make sense. We've certainly seen that including the "xml" package in the standard library was questionable at best (and the tie to PyXML exacerbated that horribly). -Fred -- Fred Drake <fdrake at acm.org> _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
