[Python-Dev] [Python-3000] No beta2 tonight (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Fri Jul 18 16:21:45 CEST 2008

On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 10:43 PM, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:

On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 7:37 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:

On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 7:30 PM, Fred Drake <fdrake at acm.org> wrote:

On Jul 17, 2008, at 7:27 PM, Martin v. Löwis wrote:

bsddb is in a very bad shape, as the 2.6 code hasn't been merged into 3k. I somewhat doubt that this gets resolved before the release, so bsddb users might need to skip 3.0.

In fact, bsddb as packages in core Python has rarely been in good shape. Has anyone actually considered that bsddb might do better if maintained strictly as an external package? That would make it easier for the any maintainers to release updates, and removes a source of frustration for users who either don't need it or would rather wait for a happier version. I think this is worth considering. I vaguely recall that the bsddb module was maintained before it was incorporated into the core Python release. +1. In my recollection maintaining bsddb has been nothing but trouble right from the start when we were all sitting together at "Zope Corp North" in a rented office in McLean... We can remove it from 3.0. We can't really remove it from 2.6, but we can certainly start end-of-lifing it in 2.6.

Unless I hear otherwise, I will add it to PEP 3108.

Please do!

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