Re: [Python-Dev] Adding a new C API function in 2.6

2010-05-21 Thread Barry Warsaw
On May 21, 2010, at 01:05 AM, Martin v. Löwis wrote: Should we start thinking about releasing 2.6.6 soonish? >>> >>> By tradition, it should come out soon after 2.7 and be the last bugfix >>> (except for security patches). >> >> I guess what I mean is, should we have (at least) one more point

Re: [Python-Dev] Adding a new C API function in 2.6

2010-05-20 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Should we start thinking about releasing 2.6.6 soonish? By tradition, it should come out soon after 2.7 and be the last bugfix (except for security patches). I guess what I mean is, should we have (at least) one more point release before the post-2.7 last-bug-fix-release? Because it's a secu

Re: [Python-Dev] Adding a new C API function in 2.6

2010-05-20 Thread Barry Warsaw
On May 20, 2010, at 06:01 PM, Terry Reedy wrote: >On 5/20/2010 5:52 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote: >> On May 20, 2010, at 12:53 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote: >> >>> Sounds good to me, since this is (a) a security fix that will make >>> some vendors happy, and (b) only a C-level API. I expect that some >>>

Re: [Python-Dev] Adding a new C API function in 2.6

2010-05-20 Thread Terry Reedy
On 5/20/2010 5:52 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote: On May 20, 2010, at 12:53 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote: Sounds good to me, since this is (a) a security fix that will make some vendors happy, and (b) only a C-level API. I expect that some apps embedding Python will use this API unconditionally and this

Re: [Python-Dev] Adding a new C API function in 2.6

2010-05-20 Thread Barry Warsaw
On May 20, 2010, at 12:53 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote: >Sounds good to me, since this is (a) a security fix that will make >some vendors happy, and (b) only a C-level API. I expect that some >apps embedding Python will use this API unconditionally and this break >with earlier Python versions; this

Re: [Python-Dev] Adding a new C API function in 2.6

2010-05-20 Thread Guido van Rossum
Sounds good to me, since this is (a) a security fix that will make some vendors happy, and (b) only a C-level API. I expect that some apps embedding Python will use this API unconditionally and this break with earlier Python versions; this could be intentional because of the vulnerability (else why

[Python-Dev] Adding a new C API function in 2.6

2010-05-20 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Hello, I would like to check that it's possible to a new C API function in the 2.6 branch, on the basis that it would help solve what seems to be reported as a security problem by several vendors (including Linux distributions) -- see http://bugs.python.org/issue5753 for a thorough discussion. T