[Python-Dev] [Python-3000] [Python-3000-checkins] r64217 - in python/branches/py3k/Lib: bsddb/test/test_associate.py bsddb/test/test_join.py bsddb/test/test_lock.py bsddb/test/test_thread.py idlelib/rpc.py idlelib/run.py socketserver.py test/test_threadedtemp (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Fri Jun 13 19:25:41 CEST 2008

On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 6:07 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

Steve Holden wrote:

Guido van Rossum wrote:

It's water under the bridge now, but IMO it was too rash to remove the old threading API from Py3k, and doubly rash to do so one day before the beta release. Running up to a release (whether alpha, beta or final) we should practice extra restraint, not rush to get things in right before the deadline. Let's all be more careful the rest of this release cycle! (I think it wasn't just Benjamin who raced to get things in...) Well, it wouldn't be "adding a new feature" to reinstate the old API for beta two, would it, as long as we retain the new one too? It does seem that change was a little precipitate. Although if we weren't actually planning on removing the old API in 3.0, I'm a little confused as to why we were adding Py3k warnings to it in 2.6...

It all went way too fast for anyone to think about the decision, so I suspect these two issues are directly related.

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