[Python-Dev] Re: Bug fix releases

[A.M. Kuchling]

On Mon, 5 Mar 2001 01:16:55 +0100, Thomas Wouters <thomas at xs4all.net> wrote:
>How can you say this ? Okay, so *fixing* bugs isn't terribly exciting, but
>hunting them down is one of the best sports around. Same for optimizations:
>rewriting the code might be boring (though if you are a fast typist, it
>usually doesn't take long enough to get boring :) but thinking them up is
>the fun part. 

Plus, time not spent on new Python features is free to be spent on new
libraries or applications.  Is it more fun to hack on the core, or on
a library such as ZODB or whatever?  I'm finding the latter, and as a
bonus it's much easier since you have a clean slate to start from.

--amk