Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
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On Oct 1, 2009, at 1:47 PM, Scott Dial wrote:

> Allow me to be naive for a moment and say,
> is this not the point of rc1 but to catch bugs that should not be in  
> the
> final?

Actually, no.  The point of an rc is to avoid a brown paper bag  
mistake, i.e. something we really fscked up in the release like  
breaking "import sys" or the build process, etc.

We're always gonna have bugs, so that can't be it. :)

-Barry

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