On May 29, 2008, at 1:07 PM, Stefan Behnel wrote:

> Hi Robert,
>
> Robert Bradshaw wrote:
>> I've been pretty quiet on the P3k stuff, but it looks like things are
>> coming a long way!
>
> They definitely are.
>
>
>> I'd like to push out another release sometime soon
>> (next week?)--do you think things will be stable enough to do so by
>> then?
>
> I was already thinking about a new release, too. Having a release  
> out before
> dev1 would remove the need to keep things releasable while everyone  
> is hacking
> away.

My thoughts exactly.

> However, there is currently a bit of instability in the C-APIs of  
> Py 2.6 and
> 3.0. So it would be good, on the other hand, to wait for the final  
> release of
> the first beta versions, which is scheduled for next week (4th)  
> anyway. That
> would give us a clean version that compiles code unchanged for  
> Py2.3 through
> 3.0beta1. If things settle before that, we'll report back to the list.

Very cool. Right after the beta releases sounds like a good target.

> Here's the Py3 release schedule:
>
> http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0361/
>
>
>> (I'd also like to get Dag's new code in.)
>
> That shouldn't conflict.

Yes, I just meant I'm waiting on that too.

> Things are pretty much finished, except for the
> unclear parts of the Py3 C-API. But that's a couple of #defines away.
>
>
>> Sage compiles and runs fine with the current devel branch.
>
> Nice. If you feel ambitious, you can try to build it with the last  
> 2.6 alpha.
> It might not compile with 3.0 right away, but it should not be too  
> hard to get
> it running on 2.6 for a start.

Porting Sage to 2.6 will likely be more than a one-week project... 
(though I hope not).

- Robert



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