On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 12:28 AM, Stefan Behnel <stefan...@behnel.de> wrote: > mark florisson, 25.09.2012 22:37: >>>> On 25 September 2012 16:12, Stefan Behnel wrote: >>>>> Stefan Behnel, 25.09.2012 14:55: >>>>>> there is a reference leak in the new dict iteration code in 0.17: >>>>>> >>>>>> http://trac.cython.org/cython_trac/ticket/790 >>>>>> >>>>>> I'll see if I can fix it and then release a pure bugfix 0.17.1 right >>>>>> afterwards. >>>>>> >>>>>> Please take a look at your own patch queues to see if there are any other >>>>>> important bugs that you would like to see fixed in that release. >>>>> >>>>> Update: I fixed this, so 0.17.1 will be released tomorrow (CEST) unless >>>>> you've thrown in your veto by then. >> >> We only have a few really small fixes, do we really want to push >> out a bugfix release with this? > > My answer is Yes. The dict iteration regression breaks lxml really badly > and I'm sure code of other people is impacted, too. Remember that ref-leaks > are way less obvious than crashes and usually won't show in test suites. It > took me quite a while to get to the source of this problem. > > Besides, it's been almost a month since the release and if nothing else > piled up since then, the better.
Also, on a more general note, I would rather err towards more small bugfix releases (when impactful bugs come up) instead of the pattern we've fallen into of only releasing a couple times a year. So +1 to this. - Robert _______________________________________________ cython-devel mailing list cython-devel@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/cython-devel
