[Python-checkins] r66799 - python/branches/release26-maint

[Georg Brandl]

Martin v. Löwis schrieb:
>> They would all need to be committed to 2.6, of course. But I see the danger of
>> people not remembering that...
> 
> It's not so much about forgetting it, but of not caring. It's more work:
> it requires a 2.6 checkout, it requires mastership of svnmerge, you have
> to run the tests twice. So some people won't port across the branches,
> regardless of what the setup is. If 2.7 is to be released a year from
> now, it may not even be worth it.

It would need a 2.6 checkout, yes. But the actual merging and running the
tests would usually be done, like for 3.0 now, by another person merging
a bulk of changes.

Georg

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