On Thu, 28 May 2015 08:48:11 +1000 Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I just remembered one of the biggest causes of pain: Windows binaries for > projects that aren't using the stable ABI. It used to regularly take 6+ > months for the Windows ecosystem to catch up after each 2.x release.
You're right, compatibility of C extension builds under Windows is pretty much the killer. > After all, the real difference between the alphas and the final releases > isn't about anything *we* do, it's about the testing *other people* do that > picks up gaps in our test coverage. A gated trunk makes it more feasible > for other projects to do continuous integration against it. Long ago (before I became a core developer) we had "community buildbots" for that. They didn't receive any attention or maintenance from third-party projects. 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
