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PEP: 251
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Title: Python 2.2 Release Schedule
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Version: $Revision$
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Author: guido@python.org (Guido van Rossum), barry@zope.com (Barry A. Warsaw)
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Status: Incomplete
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Type: Informational
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Created: 17-Apr-2001
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Python-Version: 2.2
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Post-History: 14-Aug-2001
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Abstract
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This document describes the post-Python 2.1 development and
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release schedule. The schedule primarily concerns itself with
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PEP-sized items. Small bug fixes and changes will occur up until
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the first beta release.
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NOTE: the schedule below and the list of features under
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consideration are all subject to change! If the energy in the
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community changes or the feedback on a PEP is particularly
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positive or negative, this may affect decisions.
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Release Schedule
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Tentative future release dates. Note that we've slipped this
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compared to the schedule posted around the release of 2.2a1.
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19-Dec-2001: 2.2 (final release)
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12-Dec-2001: 2.2c1 (release candidate)
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14-Nov-2001: 2.2b2
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10-Oct-2001: 2.2b1
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19-Sep-2001: 2.2a3 (new! a third alpha)
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22-Aug-2001: 2.2a2
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18-Jul-2001: 2.2a1
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Release Manager
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Barry Warsaw will take over as the release manager. Guido and
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Barry will release 2.2a2 together, after that Barry will be
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responsible for releases.
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Release Mechanics
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We'd like to experiment with a new mechanism for releases: a week
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before every alpha, beta or other release, we'll fork off a branch
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which will become the release; changes to the branch will have to
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be approved before they can be checked in. This is how some other
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large projects (e.g. Mozilla) work, and we hope it will help
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reduce the number of bugs introduced in releases at the last
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minute.
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Planned features for 2.2
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The following features are already checked in on the head revision
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(for a more detailed account, see Misc/NEWS):
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- iterators (PEP 234)
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- generators (PEP 255)
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- division (PEP 238)
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- unification of types and classes (PEP 252, PEP 253)
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Work on the class/type unification is still ongoing.
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The following features are under consideration:
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- unifying long ints and plain ints (PEP 237)
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There needs to be more discussion of each of these before we can
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decide.
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Copyright
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This document has been placed in the public domain.
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