[Python-Dev] 2.3b1 release (original) (raw)

Jack Jansen Jack.Jansen@oratrix.com
Thu, 17 Apr 2003 23:29:24 +0200

On donderdag, apr 17, 2003, at 22:17 Europe/Amsterdam, Guido van Rossum wrote:

I'd like to do a 2.3b1 release someday. Maybe at the end of next week, that would be Friday April 25. If anyone has something that needs to be done before this release go out, please let me know!

The getargs mods got checked in just this morning, even though I explicitly and rather strongly asked that if these mods be made they be checked in long before a release was due:-( Sorry, I forgot. Did you make a note of that on the SF patch?

Yes, I'm pretty sure I did. Thomas also seems to refer to it...

This means that all the Mac modules are now 100% dead. The same is probably true for PyObjC. And PyObjC has the added problem that it needs to be compatible with both 2.3b1 and 2.2 (notice that that is "2.2", not "2.2.X": PyObjC has to work with /usr/bin/python that Apple ships, which is 2.2 at the moment). I assume there are format codes that will convert 16 bit and 32 bit integer quantities without any checks on both 2.2 and 2.3, but I haven't investigated yet. Maybe we should retract the changes to existing format codes that make them more restrictive? That should revive any code that's curerntly dead, right?

That would be much better. if "l" (lower case ell) would continue to accept anything I wouldn't have to change anything.

Of course I've been busy all night fixing code, but apart from a couple of hand-crafted modules I haven't checked anything in yet. I will check it in on a branch later tonight, and then I'll either forget about the branch or merge it, depending on the resolution of this.