[Python-Dev] 3.0.1 possibilities (original) (raw)

Steve Holden steve at holdenweb.com
Sun Dec 7 14:38:58 CET 2008

Brett Cannon wrote:

On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 15:41, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:

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On Dec 6, 2008, at 6:25 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:

On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 3:18 PM, Benjamin Peterson <musiccomposition at gmail.com> wrote: Since the release of 3.0, several critical issues have come to our attention. Namely, the builtin cmp function wasn't removed [1] and the new IO library proved to be (as expected) abysmally slow [2][3][4]. Christian proposed that we release 3.0.1 within the next week to patch up this critical issues. Thoughts?

[1] http://bugs.python.org/1717 [2] http://bugs.python.org/4533 [3] http://bugs.python.org/4561 [4] http://bugs.python.org/4565 I've set the priority on all these to release blockers, but I have my reservations about 4561 and 4565. Resolution of those seem like more than a week or so away. If we want to do a bug fix release for 3.0.1, I'd like to do it no later than the 19th. +1 just to get rid of cmp(). And if io speedups can happen, great, but they can also wait for 3.0.2. A point release just to remove a function whose withdrawal has been advertised as a 3.0 change hardly seems worth the substantial effort of cutting a release. If cmp() shouldn't have been in 3.0 and was then there's surely no problem about removing it later as promised: anyone who uses it in 3.0 code shouldn't be.

If it doesn't have to wait for a major release then is there any real need to cut the minor release immediately?

regards Steve

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