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

David Malcolm dmalcolm at redhat.com
Sun Mar 21 21:22:48 UTC 2010


On Wed, 2010-03-17 at 02:51 -0400, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> 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.

Upstream released 3.1.2 today; I've built it into Fedora 14:
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=162960

I haven't tested it yet.  If it seems to work OK, then shall we build
3.1.2 into Fedora 13?




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