[python-committers] Python 2.6.5 rc 2

[Jack Diederich]

Nevermind, I just read the full bug report and sure enough "Features
such as this will not be
backported to the 2.x branch" appears right there in the middle.

-Jack

On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 7:35 PM, Jack Diederich <jackdied at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 7:56 AM, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:
>> Hi Python hackateers!
>>
>> It looks like we finally have no more release blockers for 2.6.5rc2.  I would
>> like to tag the tree tonight for rc2 so that Martin can build the Windows
>> installer for a release tomorrow.  I am also moving the final release back to
>> Friday March 19.
>
> Someone just commented on http://bugs.python.org/issue5228
> (making functools.partial picklable to play nicer with the
> multiprocessing module)
>
> I committed it a year ago to the trunk but didn't backport it to
> 26maint.  Should I tell the guy that isn't the kind of thing we
> backport, that it is too late for a release candidate, or something
> else?
>
> -Jack
>