On Sat, 23 May 2015 20:14:56 -0700 Larry Hastings <la...@hastings.org> wrote: > > On 05/23/2015 07:38 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote: > > Eric clarified for me that Larry was considering granting a feature > > freeze exemption to defer landing this to beta 2 while Eric tracked > > down a segfault bug in the current patch that provides a C > > implementation of OrderedDict. > > Yeah, I'm willing to grant the feature freeze exception, assuming he can > find general approval from the community (and assuming he still has > Guido's blessing). I just wanted a little more sunlight on the topic, > rather than rushing to check it in.
Given the pain that has gone into making the patch segfault- and reference leak-free, and given it adds a lot of complication in the data types area, I'm frankly uneasy with having this land after the feature freeze. It's a sure recipe to *add* instability rather than remove it. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
