[Python-Dev] Python 2.5 and ast-branch (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Wed Oct 5 16:52:44 CEST 2005

On 10/5/05, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

Anyway, the question is: What do we want to do with ast-branch? Finish bringing it up to Python 2.4 equivalence, make it the HEAD, and only then implement the approved PEP's (308, 342, 343) that affect the compiler? Or implement the approved PEP's on the HEAD, and move the goalposts for ast-branch to include those features as well?

I believe the latter is the safe option in terms of making sure 2.5 is a solid release, but doing it that way suggests to me that the ast compiler would need to be held over until 2.6, which would be somewhat unfortunate. Given that I don't particularly like that answer, I'd love for someone to convince me I'm wrong ;)

Given the total lack of response, I have a different suggestion. Let's abandon the AST-branch. We're fooling ourselves believing that we can ever switch to that branch, no matter how theoretically better it is.

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