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PEP: 251
Title: Python 2.2 Release Schedule
Version: $Revision$
Author: Guido van Rossum
Status: Incomplete
Type: Informational
Created: 17-Apr-2001
Python-Version: 2.2
Post-History:
Abstract
This document describes the post-Python 2.1 development and
release schedule. The schedule primarily concerns itself with
PEP-sized items. Small bug fixes and changes will occur up until
the first beta release.
NOTE: the schedule below and the list of features under
consideration are all subject to change! If the energy in the
community changes or the feedback on a PEP is particularly
positive or negative, this may affect decisions.
Release Schedule
Tentative future release dates (compare pep-0226)
17-Oct-2001: 2.2 (final release)
10-Oct-2001: 2.2c1 (release candidate)
19-Sep-2001: 2.2b2
29-Aug-2001: 2.2b1
8-Aug-2001: 2.2a2
18-Jul-2001: 2.2a1
Release Mechanics
I'd like to experiment with a new mechanism for releases: a week
before every alpha, beta or other release, I'll fork off a branch
which will become the release; changes to the branch will have to
be approved before they can be checked in. This is how some other
large projects (e.g. Mozilla) work, and I hope it will help reduce
the number of bugs introduced in releases at the last minute.
Planned features for 2.2
The following features are already checked in on the head revision
(for a more detailed account, see Misc/NEWS):
- iterators (pep-0234)
The following features are scheduled to go in; work is still
ongoing in defining the exact appearance of the features:
- generators (pep-0255)
- unification of types and classes (pep-0252, pep-0253, pep-0254)
The following features are under consideration:
- a standard set API (implemented in Python for now) (pep-0218)
- a 'directive' statement (pep-0244)
- unifying long ints and plain ints (pep-0237)
There needs to be more discussion of each of these before we can
decide.
Copyright
This document has been placed in the public domain.
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