Home Original page

[Python-Dev] release plan for 2.5 ?

Anthony Baxter anthony at interlink.com.au
Wed Feb 22 23:50:29 CET 2006 
On Thursday 23 February 2006 09:19, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> However the definition of "feature" vs. "bugfix" isn't always
> crystal clear.
>
> Some things that went into 2.4 recently felt like small features to
> me; but others may disagree:
>
> - fixing chunk.py to allow chunk size to be > 2GB
> - supporting Unicode filenames in fileinput.py
>
> Are these features or bugfixes?

Sure, the line isn't so clear sometimes. I consider both of these 
bugfixes, but others could disagree. True/False, on the other hand, I 
don't think anyone disagrees about <wink/duck>

This stuff is always open for discussion, of course. 

Anthony
-- 
Anthony Baxter     <anthony at interlink.com.au>
It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
More information about the Python-Dev mailing list