[Python-Dev] Re: Stability and change (original) (raw)

Skip Montanaro skip@pobox.com
Mon, 8 Apr 2002 10:55:24 -0500 

Anthony> That tide's only the linux users, and the linux users who care
Anthony> what kernel they're running. I'm an ex-sysadmin, pretty solid
Anthony> unix geek, and I nowadays run whatever my distro comes with -

Yup, me too. I was mostly thinking about the Linux distro folks themselves. It makes it a bit easier for them if they think, "Ah, yes, 2.3 is an experimental release. We better target Pythonn 2.2 or 2.4 for our next release."

>> That wasn't what I was referring to.  I was referring to the spate of
>> checkins where people have to advance version numbers prior to a
>> release.  I would hope that could be automated.

Anthony> That's pretty much down to 
Anthony>   Include/patchlevel.h - two spots
Anthony>   README - one line
Anthony>   Misc/NEWS - if it's been kept up to date, no changes.

I don't know. I see a lot more version-related checkins than that float by just before a release. What about the docs for example?

S