On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 07:50, Jesse Noller <jnol...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 10:43 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: >> On Wed, 15 Sep 2010 10:21:11 -0400 >> Steve Holden <st...@holdenweb.com> wrote: >>> >>> The question of when to declare 3.x the "official" release is >>> interesting. I am inclined to say "when there's at least one other >>> implementation at 3.2" - even if CPython is then at 3.3 or 3.4. >> >> I don't think that's a good criterion. 95% of Python users (my >> guesstimate) are on CPython, so whether or not alternative >> implementations are up-to-date isn't critically important. >> >> 3.1 had some warts left (*), but 3.2 should really be a high-quality >> release. Many bugs have been squashed, small improvements done >> (including additional features in the stdlib, or the new GIL), and >> unicode support has been polished again thanks to Martin's and Victor's >> efforts. Not only will it be as robust as any 2.x release (**), but it's >> also more pleasant to use, and there's upwards compatibility for many >> years to come. >> >> (*) some of them fixed in the 3.1 maintenance branch >> >> (**) with a couple of lacking areas such as the email module, I suppose >> >> Regards >> >> Antoine. > > +0.5 > > The one area I have concerns about is the state of WSGI and other > web-oriented modules. These issues have been brought up by Armin and > others, but given a lack of a clear path forward (bugs, peps, etc), I > don't think it's fair to use it as a measurement of overall quality.
The whole WSGI situation is not going to get cleared up (from my understanding) until someone flat-out declares a winner in the whole str/bytes argument that keeps coming up. I think it might be time to have a PEP or two on this and use our new PEP dictator procedure to settle this so it stops dragging on (unless it has been miraculously settled and I am just unaware of it). _______________________________________________ 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
