Raymond Hettinger <python <at> rcn.com> writes: > > The 2.6/3.0 development process was so disruptive that I doubt > that 2.5 received adequate attention for bug fixes. Why not wait > two or three months for the dust to settle?
I know that I, and a couple of others, have tried to backport "important" bug fixes (by that I mean security fixes, crashers, memory leaks, as well as glaring behaviour problems) to 2.5 when there was no risk to reduce stability or compatibility. It's also true that 2.6/3.0 were so disruptive that the reason why few things were backported is simply that few things could be backported at all. Most checkins were related to new functionality or modified behaviour, or new bugs introduced by either of those. Everyone can look at http://code.python.org/hg/branches/release2.5-maint/shortlog to get an idea of where 2.5 is. 2.5.2 was tagged ~7 months ago. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
