Brett Cannon wrote: > On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 15:41, Barry Warsaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On Dec 6, 2008, at 6:25 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote: >> >>> On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 3:18 PM, Benjamin Peterson >>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> Since the release of 3.0, several critical issues have come to our >>>> attention. Namely, the builtin cmp function wasn't removed [1] and the >>>> new IO library proved to be (as expected) abysmally slow [2][3][4]. >>>> Christian proposed that we release 3.0.1 within the next week to patch >>>> up this critical issues. Thoughts? >>>> >>>> >>>> [1] http://bugs.python.org/1717 >>>> [2] http://bugs.python.org/4533 >>>> [3] http://bugs.python.org/4561 >>>> [4] http://bugs.python.org/4565 >> I've set the priority on all these to release blockers, but I have my >> reservations about 4561 and 4565. Resolution of those seem like more than a >> week or so away. >> >> If we want to do a bug fix release for 3.0.1, I'd like to do it no later >> than the 19th. >> > > +1 just to get rid of cmp(). And if io speedups can happen, great, but > they can also wait for 3.0.2. > A point release just to remove a function whose withdrawal has been advertised as a 3.0 change hardly seems worth the substantial effort of cutting a release. If cmp() shouldn't have been in 3.0 and was then there's surely no problem about removing it later as promised: anyone who uses it in 3.0 code shouldn't be.
If it doesn't have to wait for a major release then is there any real need to cut the minor release immediately? regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ _______________________________________________ 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
