On Apr 15, 2010, at 08:01 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote: >Comments inline. Nothing showstopping, mostly just spewing obscure >background information... > >Overall, congratulations! I'm fine with the implementation going in >and the PEP being marked as accepted as long as you get to the >clarifications I suggest below soon after.
Awesome, thanks Guido! I will respond in detail and address your clarifications before I commit to the py3k branch. I wanted to address one thing now though since Steve responded to it. >> Implementation strategy >> ======================= >> >> This feature is targeted for Python 3.2, solving the problem for those >> and all future versions. It may be back-ported to Python 2.7. > >Is there time given that 2.7b1 was released? I think this would be totally up to Benjamin as the RM for 2.7. Although I haven't tried yet, my sense of it is that most of the patch would port pretty easily to trunk. I could probably generate a patch for review by mid-next week. Whether it should or not is a different matter. Given that we're in beta, I'm not sure *I* would approve it if I were the RM, but as the developer, sure, I'd love to back port it. :) However... >> Vendors are free to backport the changes to earlier distributions as >> they see fit. ...Steve asks if we're really going to do this. For Debian and/or Ubuntu, we haven't yet decided. I plan to begin that discussion on the appropriate distro-related mailing lists after the code lands on py3k. It certainly won't be enabled by default. I don't think we've made any decisions about which versions of Python will make it into the next release of Ubuntu about 6 months from now, but given the Python release schedule, that could be 2.6, 2.7 and 3.1. If we really do include all three versions, I will push for backporting the feature (enabled with -Xcachedir) in our releases so that we can gain the benefit of ditching the symlink farms as soon as possible. -Barry
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