PEP: 356
Title: Python 2.5 Release Schedule
Version: $Revision$
Author: Neal Norwitz, GvR, Anthony Baxter
Status: Draft
Type: Informational
Created: 07-Feb-2006
Python-Version: 2.5
Post-History: 

Abstract

    This document describes the development and release schedule for
    Python 2.5.  The schedule primarily concerns itself with PEP-sized
    items.  Small features may be added up to and including the first
    beta release.  Bugs may be fixed until the final release.

    There will be at least two alpha releases, two beta releases, and
    one release candidate.  The release date is planned 19 August 2006.


Release Manager

    Anthony Baxter has volunteered to be Release Manager.
    Martin von Loewis, Barry Warsaw, and Neal Norwitz volunteered
    to assist Anthony as Release Manager.

    Martin von Loewis is building the Windows installers,
    Fred Drake the doc packages, and
    Sean Reifschneider the RPMs.


Release Schedule

    alpha 1: April 1, 2006 [planned]
    alpha 2: April 29, 2006 [planned]
    alpha 3: May 27, 2006 [planned]
    beta 1:  June 24, 2006 [planned]
    beta 2:  July 15, 2006 [planned]
    rc 1:    August 5, 2006 [planned]
    final:   August 19, 2006 [planned]


Completed features for 2.5

    PEP 308: Conditional Expressions
    PEP 309: Partial Function Application
    PEP 314: Metadata for Python Software Packages v1.1
        (should PEP 314 be marked final?)
    PEP 328: Absolute/Relative Imports
    PEP 338: Executing Modules as Scripts
    PEP 341: Unified try-except/try-finally to try-except-finally
    PEP 342: Coroutines via Enhanced Generators
    PEP 343: The "with" Statement
	(still need updates in Doc/ref and for the contextlib module)
    PEP 352: Required Superclass for Exceptions
    PEP 353: Using ssize_t as the index type
    PEP 357: Allowing Any Object to be Used for Slicing

    - ASCII is the default coding

    - AST-based compiler
      - Access to C AST from Python through new _ast module

    - Add support for reading shadow passwords (http://python.org/sf/579435)

    - any()/all() builtin truth functions

    - new hashlib module add support for SHA-224, -256, -384, and -512
      (replaces old md5 and sha modules)

    - new cProfile module suitable for profiling long running applications
      with minimal overhead

    - Fredrik Lundh's ElementTree and cElementTree

    - Add ctypes to the standard library, make it an optional component
      in the windows installer.  Thomas Heller will maintain it.

    - Add support for the Unicode 4.1 UCD

    - Add msilib module for creating MSI files and bdist_msi in distutils.
      There are no docs yet.


Planned features for 2.5

    Each feature below should implemented prior to alpha2 or 
    will require BDFL approval for inclusion in 2.5.

    - SyntaxWarnings for the following proposed keywords:

      - 'do'? (PEP 315)
      - 'super'
      - 'interface' and 'implements'? (PEP 245)
      - 'switch' and 'case'? (PEP 275)
      - 'True' and 'False'?

    - Add builtin @deprecated decorator?

    - Add @decorator decorator to functional, rename to functools?

    - Remove the fpectl module?

    - Modules under consideration for inclusion:

      - bdist_deb in distutils package
        http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-February/060926.html

      - bdist_egg in distutils package

      - setuptools to the standard library

      - wsgiref to the standard library
        (Phillip Eby has volunteered to maintain it.)

      - pure python pgen module


Deferred until 2.6:

    - None


Open issues

    - xmlplus/xmlcore situation wrt ElementTree needs resolution
      http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-December/058752.html

    - should C modules listed in "Undocumented modules" be removed too?
      "timing" (listed as obsolete), "cl" (listed as possibly not up-to-date),
      and "sv" (listed as obsolete hardware specific).

    - Move GeneratorExit in hierarchy? (make special like KeyboardInterrupt)
      http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-March/062635.html


Copyright

    This document has been placed in the public domain.



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