[Python-Dev] Re: 2.1.2 release -- do we need a beta?

[Anthony Baxter]

>>> Guido van Rossum wrote
> Do we need a beta for the 2.1.2 release?  I think it might be prudent
> -- Anthony's last-minute checking of a critical fix to a bug that
> prevented compilation on one platform points this out again.

Maybe. But on the other hand, I've also done a bunch of different builds
on as many platforms as I could find. 
[The oopsie I found was actually probably the most complex merge of the
lot, and that's not saying much. put it down to too many CVS checkouts 
and not enough brain :)]

The ugliness potential is from either those platforms that are an offense
against nature that no-one thinks to try, or from some sort of weird 
compilation options. I don't think that there's many of the fixes in 
the 2.1.2 code that are going to break something that worked before - 
with the list of platforms I've hit tonight, I think I've got most of
the new code exercised. (One of the minor-ish constraints I put on 
candidate fixes was whether or not I could easily test it.) 

The other question I have to ask is whether people will actually download
and test a beta/release candidate of a bugfix release. 

Anthony
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