[Python-Dev] Towards 1.6 Final

[Greg Stein]

On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 04:53:10PM -0400, Barry A. Warsaw wrote:
> ... disclaimers applied ...
>
> - import hooks revamped (push this to 1.7)

The latest thought had two items here:

1) incorporate feedback into imputil.py.
   [ the feedback is visible at the end of the most recent version:
       http://www.lyra.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/gjspy/imputil.py/
   ]
2) drop imputil into the standard library, but don't go down the "replace
   Python's default mechanism with imputil"

Essentially, this gets imputil out there and usable, but it doesn't directly
impact Python's operation in 1.6.

>...
> - Unicode: Write \N{SMILEY} codec for Unicode (Bill Tutt has a patch,
>   but none of us know what the state of this is -- is it crucial
>   anyway?).

Bill posted some patches. Little feedback. He will be reposting an updated
patch.

>...
> - Conservative GC, of cycles (this is basically done but needs a lot
>   more testing)

I would recommend doing this in small, reviewable steps. I believe there are
a lot of "framework" changes that can occur without actually changing Python
itself. After that first round, which will make adding GC easier, then we
can do Step 2 and add the real GC stuff.

>...

New item:
  - replace httplib.py with Greg's new module. plus docs/test.

>...
> As we saw it the most critical things that need to get done are
> testing the GC stuff and the SRE module.  Of those, the most critical
> is SRE since AFAIK, we're still waiting for the final complete code
> from /F.  I could be wrong about that.

I believe his recent patch (which AMK applied) brings it up to "current".

Cheers,
-g

-- 
Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/