[Python-Dev] Upcoming 2.5.2 release (original) (raw)

Christian Heimes lists at cheimes.de
Thu Jan 31 14:25:53 CET 2008

Jesus Cea wrote:

My guess is that 2.5 branch is still open to more patches than pure security/stability patches, so "backporting" BerkeleyDB 4.6 support seems reasonable (to me). If I'm wrong, please educate me :-).

I think you are wrong, sorry pal! DB 4.6 support is a new feature. New features must land in the development version(s) of Python, that is Python 2.6 and 3.0. You must change as less code as possible in Python 2.5 to fix a severe problem.

Christian

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