[python-committers] Data corruption issue (C IO library)

[Brett Cannon]

On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 16:42, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 4:28 PM, Georg Brandl<g.brandl at gmx.net> wrote:
> > Antoine Pitrou schrieb:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> A data corruption issue has been discovered in the C IO lib in Python
> >> 3.1 (http://bugs.python.org/issue6629). I've applied a fix, and I
> wonder
> >> whether we should make a release quickly to minimize the probability of
> >> users hitting the problem?
> >> (Georg tells me Benjamin is on holiday, however)
> >
> > FWIW, I also think we should make a new micro release right now.  We
> can't
> > be seen to take data corruption issues with the most basic file
> operations
> > lightly, especially in Python 3; otherwise, people will think we still
> don't
> > consider it ready for use.
> >
> > We can either make a release with only that patch applied, or a release
> of
> > the full 3.1-maint branch, but the latter would need alphas and betas.
>
> +1


Is that for the former or latter solution? Assuming the former, who is going
to organize this since Benjamin is on vacation? And do we want just a source
release or a full binary release (I assume the latter but the former is a
lot easier)?

-Brett
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