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[Python-Dev] [python-committers] On track for Python 2.6.4 final this Sunday?

R. David Murray rdmurray at bitdance.com
Tue Oct 13 19:41:49 CEST 2009 
On Tue, 13 Oct 2009 at 12:57, Barry Warsaw wrote:
> On Oct 13, 2009, at 11:16 AM, Tarek Ziadé wrote:
>> I still need to do some more tests, I didn't have time to try the
>> various projects under win32.
>> It's planned to night.
>> 
>> The tests are consisting of compiling and insatling a dozain of
>> projects on linux and win32 (and bith when possible)
>
> Great thanks, let us know how it goes.  If there's any question at all about 
> the fixes that have gone in since rc1, we should spin an rc2.

I always thought that the idea of a release candidate was that if there
were any fixes _at all_ that there would be a new rc.  Only when no
bugs needing fixed are found does the rc turn into the actual release.
But I understand that this is an idealized rc/release policy :)

--David (RDM)
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