On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 9:56 AM, Brett Cannon <br...@python.org> wrote:
> Doing a release every 6 months that includes updates to the stdlib and > bugfixes to the language/VM also benefits other VMs by getting compatibility > fixes in faster. All of the other VM maintainers have told me that keeping > the stdlib non-CPython compliant is the biggest hurdle. This kind of switch > means they could release a VM that supports a release 6 months or a year > after a language change release (e.g. 1 to 2 releases in) so as to get > changes in faster and lower the need to keep their own fork. As one of the other VM maintainers I agree with everything Brett has said here. The proposal sounds very good to me from that perspective. -Frank _______________________________________________ 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
