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

[Ivan Krstic]

David Nielsen wrote:
> Half a year doesn't sound like much time to allow for stablisation also

Python's beta process has already done most of the stabilization for us.

> 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?

Yes.

> 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.

There have only been 3 minor releases of 2.4 since the stable release on
Nov. 30, 2004. I'm not particularly worried.

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