[OLPC-devel] Re: [sugar] Pygtk and garbage collecting

[David Nielsen]

tir, 08 08 2006 kl. 23:29 -0400, skrev Ivan Krstic:
> Christopher Blizzard wrote:
> > I don't think we're going to move to python 2.5 on the laptop.
> 
> For reasons explained on IRC -- an important memory management patch in
> 2.5, and the fact that 2.5 will have been the stable version for about
> half a year by the time we ship -- I don't see shipping 2.4 as an
> option. That's not even mentioning the actual bunch of very useful new
> features in 2.5.
> 
> Given that Python is our main development platform on the machine, we
> just can't afford to be lazy about it. I care little about the versions
> of the rest of the stack, but I don't want to compromise on Python; if
> you don't want to do the 2.5 migration, please let me know now so I can
> schedule time to do it myself. Having to deal with that would be
> unfortunate, though, as there are far more pressing things for me to
> work on.

Half a year doesn't sound like much time to allow for stablisation also
shipping date isn't the same as the feature freeze date, would we be
able to get Python 2.5 in before such a cut off date?

It seems like a risky move to me, 2.4 has had a long time to settle
down, 2.5 is all fresh and dangerfilled.

- David Nielsen