Luis P Caamano wrote: > Mind you though, I'm not trying to oversimplify the issue. > I was not using python yet at that time (I started around > 1.5/1.6) and I didn't see all the info involved in the decision > making process, so I'm sure there were other issues that > contributed to the decision of not keeping Greg's free > threading changes.
For historical correctness, I believe there never was a decision to "not keep Greg's free threading changes". I believe Greg never actually contributed them (at least not in a publically-visible manner). This, in turn appears to be the result of the problem that nobody (including Greg) was able to tell whether the patches are actually correct (for extension modules, it appears there was agreement that the patches are *not* correct). (more correctly, it appears that some of the code made it to Python 1.5) Instead, the issue mainly died because nobody provided working code (along with a strategy on what to do with the existing extension modules). Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
