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

Aahz aahz at pythoncraft.com
Fri Jan 30 03:33:28 CET 2009

On Fri, Jan 30, 2009, Antoine Pitrou wrote:

Raymond Hettinger <python rcn.com> writes:

* If you're thinking that shelves have very few users and that 3.0.0 has had few adopters, doesn't that mitigate the effects of making a better format available in 3.0.1? Wouldn't this be the time to do it? There was already another proposal for an sqlite-based dbm module, you may want to synchronize with it: http://bugs.python.org/issue3783 As I see it, the problem with introducing it in 3.0.1 is that we would be rushing in a new piece of code without much review or polish. Also, there are only two release blockers left for 3.0.1, so we might just finish those and release, then concentrate on 3.1.

There's absolutely no reason not to have a 3.0.2 before 3.1 comes out. You're probably right that what Raymond wants to is best not done for 3.0.1 -- but once we've agreed in principle that 3.0.x isn't a true production release of Python for PEP6 purposes, we can do "release early, release often".

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