[Python-Dev] Towards 1.6 Final

[Greg Stein]

On Tue, Jun 13, 2000 at 03:18:59PM +0200, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> bwarsaw@python.org wrote:
> > 
> > >>>>> "VM" == Vladimir Marangozov <Vladimir.Marangozov@inrialpes.fr> writes:
> > 
> >     >> - enable threads by default if OS supports it
> > 
> >     VM> Who's going to champion this? I recall Greg Stein volunteering
> >     VM> for it ;) (or for something related)
> > 
> > This isn't the free-threading stuff, which I think we're pushing back
> > to 1.7, right?  Just making --with-threads turned on by default if the
> > OS supports it.
> 
> Ehm, didn't we agree on not enabling this by default ? From what
> I've heard there are simply too many problems with thread
> implementations which cause Python to break in different ways
> (not necessarily Python's faults).

Threads are quite fine nowadays. Windows has enabled threads for years.
Recent Linux distros all turn it on.

etc

No sense in being afraid any more. :-)

Cheers,
-g

p.s. and yes: free-threading is post 1.6

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