[Python-Dev] time-based releases (was Re: Preserving the definition order of class namespaces.) (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Fri May 29 01:15:36 CEST 2015

On Thu, 28 May 2015 08:48:11 +1000 Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

I just remembered one of the biggest causes of pain: Windows binaries for projects that aren't using the stable ABI. It used to regularly take 6+ months for the Windows ecosystem to catch up after each 2.x release.

You're right, compatibility of C extension builds under Windows is pretty much the killer.

After all, the real difference between the alphas and the final releases isn't about anything we do, it's about the testing other people do that picks up gaps in our test coverage. A gated trunk makes it more feasible for other projects to do continuous integration against it.

Long ago (before I became a core developer) we had "community buildbots" for that. They didn't receive any attention or maintenance from third-party projects.

Regards

Antoine.

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