[Python-Dev] PEP 407 / splitting the stdlib (original) (raw)

fwierzbicki at gmail.com fwierzbicki at gmail.com
Wed Jan 18 22:31:26 CET 2012

On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 9:56 AM, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:

Doing a release every 6 months that includes updates to the stdlib and bugfixes to the language/VM also benefits other VMs by getting compatibility fixes in faster. All of the other VM maintainers have told me that keeping the stdlib non-CPython compliant is the biggest hurdle. This kind of switch means they could release a VM that supports a release 6 months or a year after a language change release (e.g. 1 to 2 releases in) so as to get changes in faster and lower the need to keep their own fork. As one of the other VM maintainers I agree with everything Brett has said here. The proposal sounds very good to me from that perspective.

-Frank

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