[Python-Dev] peps: Update with bugfix releases. (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Wed Feb 8 21:46:22 CET 2012

Am 05.02.2012 21:34, schrieb Ned Deily:

In article <20120205204551.Horde.NCdeYVNNcXdPLtxvnkzi1lA at webmail.df.eu>, martin at v.loewis.de wrote:

I understand that but, to me, it makes no sense to send out truly broken releases. Besides, the hash collision attack is not exactly new either. Another few weeks can't make that much of a difference. Why would the release be truly broken? It surely can't be worse than the current releases (which apparently aren't truly broken, else there would have been no point in releasing them back then). They were broken by the release of OS X 10.7 and Xcode 4.2 which were subsequent to the previous releases. None of the currently available python.org installers provide a fully working system on OS X 10.7, or on OS X 10.6 if the user has installed Xcode 4.2 for 10.6.

In what way are the current releases not fully working? Are you referring to issues with building extension modules?

If it's that, I wouldn't call that "truly broken". Plus, the releases continue to work fine on older OS X releases.

So when you build a bug fix release, just build it with the same tool chain as the previous bug fix release, and all is fine.

Regards, Martin

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