[Python-Dev] Goals for patch selection for 2.1.2

[Guido van Rossum]

> I agree  - there's also the possibility that there will be additional 
> patches needed to fix a bug in code that's just not relevant for 2.2 
> (this is less likely), or an alternate fix might be needed that's
> not as thorough as one in 2.2 (where there's a large fix, a smaller 
> workaround might be more appropriate for 2.1.2)

Yup -- this was the case for the profile.py patch (which took a life
of its own in 2.2 :-).

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)