[Python-3000] Reminder: last alphas next Wednesday 07-May-2008 (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Fri May 2 15:59:46 CEST 2008

Barry Warsaw wrote:

Time is running short to get any new features into Python 2.6 and 3.0. The release after this one is scheduled to be the first beta release, at which time we will institute a feature freeze. If your feature doesn't make it in by then, you'll have to wait until 2.7/3.1. If there is something that absolutely must go into 2.6/3.0 be sure that there is a bug issue open for it and that the Priority is set to 'release blocker'. I may reduce it to critical for the next alpha, but we'll review all the release blocker and critical issues for the first 2.6 and 3.0 beta releases.

I tried to bump http://bugs.python.org/issue643841 ("New class special method lookup change") up to release blocker, but the bug tracker still appears to be a bit flaky (it keeps giving me an error when I try to submit the change - unfortunately I can't submit anything about it to the metatracker, because I've forgotten my password for it and the metatracker is getting a connection refused when it tries to send the reminder email :P).

Here's the comment I was trying to submit along with the bug priority change:

"""Bumping the priority on this to release blocker for 3.0 - I think we need to have a good answer for the folks who've written old-style getattr based auto-delegating classes before removing old-style classes entirely in 3.0.

We could get away with ignoring the issue in the past because people had the option of just using an old-style class rather than having to deal with the difficulties of doing this with a new-style class. With 3.0, that approach is being eliminated.

A ProxyMixin class written in Python would address that need (and shouldn't be particularly hard to write), but I'm not sure where it would go in the standard library."""

Cheers, Nick.

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