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[Python-Dev] thinking about 2.7

Eric Smith eric at trueblade.com
Thu Sep 24 02:12:13 CEST 2009 
Michael Foord wrote:
> Benjamin Peterson wrote:
>> 2009/9/23 Michael Foord <fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk>:
>>  
>>> Benjamin Peterson wrote:
>>>    
>>>> 2009/9/23 Michael Foord <fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk>:
>>>>
>>>>      
>>>>> Isn't that the real compatibility test *anyway* - how successful a new
>>>>> version of Python is at running all the existing Python code...
>>>>>
>>>>>         
>>>> Yes, but we should have expect 3rd party code to be detecting bugs for
>>>> us that our test suite could have shown on a platform.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>       
>>> Well, Trent Nelson is going to devote some real time to Snakebite - 
>>> so there
>>> is a very good chance that it will be up and active before the release.
>>> Naturally I agree it would be *preferable* to run tests on all supported
>>> platforms prior to release.
>>>     
>>
>> Could I inquiry about your source of this information?
>>
>>
>>
>>   
>  From Trent on the snakebite mailing list. Too late for me to look it up 
> though; an exercise I leave to the reader.

http://groups.google.com/group/snakebite-list/browse_thread/thread/d08642261f2cc502

Eric.
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