[Python-ideas] stdlib with its own release cycle ?

Tarek Ziadé ziade.tarek at gmail.com
Sun Oct 25 13:39:22 CET 2009


On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Georg Brandl <g.brandl at gmx.net> wrote:
> Antoine Pitrou schrieb:
>> Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek at ...> writes:
>>>
>>> What about having a different release cycle for the stdlib, and
>>> shipping Python in two distinct releases:
>>>
>>> - Python : core + stdlib
>>> - Python-Stdlib : stdlib
>>>
>>> The Python release would remain unchanged, but its cycle would be
>>> longer (as the moratorium seems to imply).
>>
>> I don't think the moratorium should imply any longer release cycle. Many
>> improvements aren't of the kind that the moratorium aims at freezing. We could
>> actually make the whole release cycle shorter, knowing that releases will be
>> less disruptive.
>
> Exactly. Since with the moratorium in effect, we are basically changing
> *nothing but* the stdlib, it has its own release cycle already :)

Great then !

how long the release cycle should be then, in your opinion ?

Tarek



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