On 5/20/2010 5:52 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote:
On May 20, 2010, at 12:53 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
Sounds good to me, since this is (a) a security fix that will make
some vendors happy, and (b) only a C-level API. I expect that some
apps embedding Python will use this API unconditionally and this break
with earlier Python versions; this could be intentional because of the
vulnerability (else why would they change their code to call the new
API), or they can use an #if to check for a version>= 2.6.6.
I concur, as long as the new API availability is clearly spelled out in the
release notes, NEWS, and C API documentation. Maybe even provide an example
#ifdef in the latter.
Should we start thinking about releasing 2.6.6 soonish?
By tradition, it should come out soon after 2.7 and be the last bugfix
(except for security patches).
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