[Python-Dev] Adding a new C API function in 2.6

[Barry Warsaw]

On May 21, 2010, at 01:05 AM, Martin v. Löwis wrote:

>>>> Should we start thinking about releasing 2.6.6 soonish?
>>>
>>> By tradition, it should come out soon after 2.7 and be the last bugfix
>>> (except for security patches).
>>
>> I guess what I mean is, should we have (at least) one more point release
>> before the post-2.7 last-bug-fix-release?
>
>Because it's a security fix? No. This issue has been sitting in the 
>tracker for more than a year now, so it's not really relevant (IMO) 
>whether the bug fix arrives two weeks earlier.

Partly that, yes.  But also, 2.7 final is not scheduled until July, so we
could fit one more release in I think.  If there's no clamor for it, I'm also
happy to just wait for 2.6.6 until after Python 2.7 is released.

-Barry
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