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

Steve Holden steve at holdenweb.com
Thu Jan 29 19:57:43 CET 2009

Guido van Rossum wrote: [...]

Finally, to those who claim that 2.6 is a mess because multiprocessing wasn't perfectly stable at introduction: that's never been the standard we've used for totally new features. It's always been okay to add slightly immature features at a major release, as long as (a) they don't break anything else, and (b) we can fix things in the next release while maintaining backward compatibility. There's a large distance between saying its introduction was ill-advised and that 2.6 is a mess. I certainly never intimated such a thing (I said it was "a rushed release"). Did anyone?

Of course we can fix it. Of course 2.6 is great.

regards Steve

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