On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 10:52 AM, Benjamin Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 12:34 PM, Barry Warsaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Aug 21, 2008, at 6:30 PM, Terry Reedy wrote: >>> >>> http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode5.1.0/ >>> "Unicode 5.1.0 contains over 100,000 characters, and provides significant >>> additions and improvements..." to existing features, including new files and >>> upgrades to existing files. Sounds close to adding features ;-) >> >> I agree. This seriously feels like new, potentially high risk code to be >> adding this late in the game. The BDFL can always override, but unless >> someone is really convincing that this is low risk high benefit, I'd vote no >> for 2.6/3.0. > > +1 > > Something I think we should also be considering is the 2.7/3.1 release > cycle. I propose that we shorten it to ~1 year from 2.6/3.0's release > with our main aim being binding 2.x and 3.x more closely. This would > get the new unicode features out fairly quickly without having to wait > another 2.5 years like 2.5 -> 2.6.
I was never proposing to support any new features in 2.6/3.0. I was only proposing to update the data files that we already support to the versions provided by 5.1.0. Those data files should have the same format, just slightly improved content: some new characters, some corrected properties. Fredrik says it best: > at least two Unicode experts have stated that they don't think the changes > are that important. determining exactly what the changes to the *core* > character database was the whole point of my offer to tinker with this. > > (I got distracted due to compiler issues and certain other things to be > announced later, but I expect to have some results later this week). -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ 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
