[Python-Dev] My collection of Python 3.5.0 regressions (original) (raw)

Stephen J. Turnbull stephen at xemacs.org
Sat Sep 19 07:38:36 CEST 2015

Mark Lawrence writes:

I agree very strongly with your point here. Raising umpteen issues over installation failures when a full release comes out strikes me as below the belt when there have been multiple previous releases without a squeak.

Raising issues is always useful and appropriate. It's up to Larry Hastings to decide whether he personally needs to do more work.

I suspect he probably will, though. I knew these changes were risky on the lead time given, even though I don't do Windows, and I'm not a core Python developer. I would hope that Steve Dower and Larry were at least as well aware of what they were getting into, and there are a lot of Windows users we want to support well. (Not "have to", and YMMV. But the Python developer community clearly has a working consensus on supporting Windows well.)

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