On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 16:42, Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 4:28 PM, Georg Brandl<g.bra...@gmx.net> wrote: > > Antoine Pitrou schrieb: > >> Hello, > >> > >> A data corruption issue has been discovered in the C IO lib in Python > >> 3.1 (http://bugs.python.org/issue6629). I've applied a fix, and I > wonder > >> whether we should make a release quickly to minimize the probability of > >> users hitting the problem? > >> (Georg tells me Benjamin is on holiday, however) > > > > FWIW, I also think we should make a new micro release right now. We > can't > > be seen to take data corruption issues with the most basic file > operations > > lightly, especially in Python 3; otherwise, people will think we still > don't > > consider it ready for use. > > > > We can either make a release with only that patch applied, or a release > of > > the full 3.1-maint branch, but the latter would need alphas and betas. > > +1 Is that for the former or latter solution? Assuming the former, who is going to organize this since Benjamin is on vacation? And do we want just a source release or a full binary release (I assume the latter but the former is a lot easier)? -Brett
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