On Mon, May 25, 2015, at 03:33, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > 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.
I agree completely with Antoine. All the hard work that's gone into it recently should make it easy to land stably in 3.6. :) _______________________________________________ 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
