On Feb 06, 2013, at 02:38 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: >Le Mon, 04 Feb 2013 21:04:39 +0100, >Matthias Klose <d...@ubuntu.com> a écrit : >> So what I do understand, build-related issues like an arm64 or >> mingw32 port are ok for 2.7, if they are stable on the trunk, and >> communicated on python-dev? > >Making Python build on a new platform is, AFAICT, considered a new >feature, not a bugfix. For example, we support new MSVC versions in the >main development branch, not in bugfix branches.
Except that 2.7 is an exception to that since it's the last of the Python 2 series, and has a much longer lifespan than normal releases. I'm pretty sure we agreed that there would be some exceptions for issues like new platforms for 2.7. -Barry _______________________________________________ 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
