Ivan Krstic wrote:
Christopher Blizzard wrote:
I don't think we're going to move to python 2.5 on the laptop.
For reasons explained on IRC -- an important memory management patch in
2.5, and the fact that 2.5 will have been the stable version for about
half a year by the time we ship -- I don't see shipping 2.4 as an
option. That's not even mentioning the actual bunch of very useful new
features in 2.5.
It might be 6 months from the time that we ship, but it's hasn't been 6
months today and it hasn't been integrated into Fedora. And there's no
way that 6 months is enough time to let this stuff stabilize. We're
still finding bugs against the current python, let alone a new and
relatively untested code base.
The memory management patch sounds nice, but I don't think we've done
enough testing to know if the pain of upgrading and maintaining our own
python code base (releases, bugfixing and security fixes) is worth the
reported benefit of a patch. Especially since we don't even know that
we have a problem today.
Given that Python is our main development platform on the machine, we
just can't afford to be lazy about it. I care little about the versions
of the rest of the stack, but I don't want to compromise on Python; if
you don't want to do the 2.5 migration, please let me know now so I can
schedule time to do it myself. Having to deal with that would be
unfortunate, though, as there are far more pressing things for me to
work on.
I _certainly_ don't think that we're being lazy. But I do think we're
picking the battles that we want to fight. And if you want to spend you
time on that, I guess that's fine. But I would rather you were spending
your time on higher impact things, like making the wiki stuff work.
--Chris
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