[Python-Dev] Python 2.6.4rc1

[Jesse Noller]

On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 2:09 PM, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:
> On Oct 7, 2009, at 1:26 PM, Scott Dial wrote:
>
>> I suspect this release is primarily to quench the problems with
>> distutils, but..
>>
>> http://bugs.python.org/issue5949
>>
>> doesn't seem to have been addressed by you. And this seems like it would
>> be another unfortunate loss of an opportunity.
>
> I want us to be very careful about 2.6.4.  This isn't a normal bug fix
> release, it's specifically there to remove the brown paper bag of 2.6.3 from
> our heads.  So let's be conservative and fix this one in 2.6.5.
>
> -Barry
>

Here's another one barry:

http://bugs.python.org/issue7120

We should get this in - it's a regression I introduced awhile ago for
environments without the multiprocessing module using logging.

jesse