[Python-Dev] Python 2.6.4rc1

Tue Oct 13 14:23:35 CEST 2009

On Oct 8, 2009, at 8:45 AM, Zvezdan Petkovic wrote:
> On Oct 7, 2009, at 2:09 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote:
>> I want us to be very careful about 2.6.4. This isn't a normal bug 
>> fix release, it's specifically there to remove the brown paper bag 
>> of 2.6.3 from our heads. So let's be conservative and fix this one 
>> in 2.6.5.
>> Can we get the readline patch reviewed as well. It was applied to 
> trunk already: http://svn.python.org/view?view=rev&revision=74970
>> It's marked for backport to 2.6 as "needs review":
> http://bugs.python.org/issue6877
>> It fixes a BusError crash that was just swiped under a rug by 
> disabling the build in setup.py. :-)

I'm disinclined to approve this for 2.6.4 since it is not a regression 
in 2.6.3. It seems fine to me for 2.6.5 though.
-Barry
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