Python 2.6.5 and 3.1.2 likely to be released at the end of the week

Toshio Kuratomi a.badger at gmail.com
Wed Mar 17 06:51:06 UTC 2010


On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 07:45:27PM -0400, David Malcolm wrote:
> Python 2.6.5 and 3.1.2 are due at the end of this week.
> 
> I plan to build 2.6.5 and 3.1.2 into Fedora 14 as soon as they're
> released (though if any other maintainer wants to do this, feel free!)
> 
> My feeling is that they're too late for F-13 at this point in the
> schedule [1].  Having said that, if enough people want to test them, I'd
> be willing to build them, for some definition of "enough" (the bump from
> 3.1.1 to 3.1.2 may be safer than that from 2.6.4 to 2.6.5, since the
> python 3 stack isn't on the critical path [2])
> 
> Dave
> 
> [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/13/Schedule
> [2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Critical_Path_Packages
> 
I definitely agree with bumping the python3 package.  People who want to try
out python3 want to be working with the latest at this point and there's
nothing critical path to break there.  On the fence about bumping the
python2.6 package.

-Toshio
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