[Python-Dev] beta1 coming real soon (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Fri Jun 9 20:22:27 CEST 2006

Ronald Oussoren wrote:

How hard is the feature freeze? Would it be possible to update the Carbon bindings after beta1? Given Apple's focus on backward compatibility the update should only add new functionality, not remove existing functions/types.

I'd say it's absolute wrt. to requiring permission from the release manager.

The point of not allowing new features after a beta release is that one wants to avoid getting untested new features into a release. For that goal, it is not that relevant whether the new features are guaranteed not to break any existing features - they still don't get the testing that the beta releases try to achieve.

Regards, Martin

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