[Python-Dev] Py2.5 release schedule

[Anthony Baxter]

On Friday 28 July 2006 15:32, Raymond Hettinger wrote:
> I suggest that there be a third beta release and that we then wait
> just a bit before going final.
>
> The bugs that were found and fixed in the first two beta releases
> suggest that Py2.5 is not yet as stable as we would like.  Over the
> next few days, I'll try to run it on as much third-party code as
> possible. That would have detected the recently surfaced grammar
> error a little bit earlier (the one where "for x, in listOfTuples"
> would not unpack).
>
> The release process itself is going well but I don't think the
> pervasive AST changes have been fully shaken-out yet.

I've been thinking the same thing, too. A quick chat to Neal says that 
he also agrees.

There's still a lot more bugs popping up than I'm really comfortable 
with. I guess this is inevitable - there's a lot of new stuff in 2.5. 

Does anyone disagree with making the next release beta3?

Anthony
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