On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 2:33 PM, Ben Wolfson <wolf...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 2:11 PM, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote: >> On 1/20/2012 2:51 PM, Donald Stufft wrote: >> >>> I think the counting collision is at best a bandaid and not a proper fix >>> stemmed from a desire to not break existing applications on a bugfix >>> release ... >> >> My opinion of counting is better than yours, but even conceding the >> theoretical, purity argument, our release process is practical as well. >> There have been a few occasions when fixes to bugs in our code have been >> delayed from a bugfix release to the next feature release -- because the fix >> would break too much code depending on the bug. > > AFAICT Brett's suggestion (which had occurred to me as well, but I'm > not a core developer by any stretch) seemed to get lost in the debate: > would it be possible to go with collision counting for bugfix releases > and hash randomization for new feature releases? (Brett made it here: > <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2012-January/115740.html>.)
I made it earlier. -- --Guido van Rossum (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
