[Python-Dev] What is the rationale behind source only releases? (original) (raw)
Steven D'Aprano steve at pearwood.info
Wed May 16 02:52:16 EDT 2018
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On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 10:55:07PM -0700, Chris Jerdonek wrote:
What does “no release at all” mean? If it’s not released, how would people use it?
I've been using Python 1.7 for years now. It is the perfect Python, with exactly all the features I want, and none that I don't want, and so much faster than Python 2.7 or 3.7 it is ridiculous.
Unfortunately once I've woken up and tried to port my code to an actual computer, it doesn't work.
wink
In principle, we could continue adding fixes to a version in the source repository, but never cut a release with a new version. But I don't think we do that: once a version hits "no release", we stop adding fixes to the repo for that version:
- full source and binary releases
- source only releases
- accumulate fixes in the VCS but don't cut a new release
- stop making releases at all (the version is now unmaintained)
The third (second from the bottom) doesn't (as far as I am aware) occur.
-- Steve
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