Re: schedule for 1.14.0 release

On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 8:15 AM Johan Corveleyn <jcorvel_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> In fact, there is very little pressure on getting this in 1.14.0 GA,
> because (1) it only affects testsuite-runners on Windows, of which
> there are extremely few :-), and (2) the workaround is simple (just
> use Py 2.7 for running the testsuite on Windows). Not worth taking
> risks for IMHO.
>
> The only actual "damage" is perhaps marketing. Now we can't claim
> "Full Py3 support" in big letters, we need to add a footnote pointing
> to a known issues section in the release notes or something ...

It's already documented in "Known Issues in the Release - Python 3 support
is incomplete."

I'd like to add the test-suite-on-Windows issue(s) and document the
workarounds (but I'll continue this part of the discussion in the thread
"Problems running testsuite on Windows with Python 3").

Nathan
Received on 2020-04-22 14:59:36 CEST