[Python-Dev] Python 2.3 release schedule update (original) (raw)

Jeremy Hylton jeremy@alum.mit.edu
15 Jul 2003 16:29:00 -0400

On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 14:43, Raymond Hettinger wrote:

> On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 10:58, Barry Warsaw wrote: > > The plan is to release 2.3rc1 on July 17, 2003. I'll be out of town, so > > Jeremy will do this release, with the usual help from Fred and Tim. > > If anyone has bugs or patches they'd like to see addressed before rc1, > please make sure the priority is at 7 or higher so that they are easier > to track.

Are we still on track for a release on Thursday?

I think we are. It looks like all the tests are passing and all the high priority bugs and patches are handled.

I'm sitting on a patch for distutils support for VC 7.1 that I'd like to include. It looks safe. It's easy to verify that it doesn't break VC 6 and 7.0, and it can only improve things for VC 7.1. I expect to get to it tomorrow early AM.

I think it's too late to do anything more about startup / teardown time. On the plus side, a couple simple benchmarks are showing good results for me. In addition to pystone, I'm doing an HTML benchmark -- feeding Hamlet to HTMLParser().

benchmark 2.1 2.2 2.3 pystone 5.02 4.68 3.68 html 19.96 20.97 15.93

That's shows Python 2.3 is 27% faster than 2.2.cvs for pystone and 31% faster for html.

Jeremy